Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposed tidy-up of the FPC Manual section on Character Types and the FPC Wiki

2017-08-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-08-18 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: please could we have the breaking version numbers noted explicitly. The 'fpdoc' tool already has support for that feature. The tag in description files. I don't know if it has actually been used in FPC class documentation though. I know I use it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposed tidy-up of the FPC Manual section on Character Types and the FPC Wiki

2017-08-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
Tony, Thank you for your proposals! I will take them to heart and improve the docs accordingly. Some parts are 20 years old, so no surprise that they are not exactly correct any more... Michael. On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Tony Whyman wrote: There has been some heated discussion on the Lazarus

Re: [fpc-pascal] Proposed tidy-up of the FPC Manual section on Character Types and the FPC Wiki

2017-08-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 18/08/17 10:00, Tony Whyman wrote: There has been some heated discussion on the Lazarus lists on the subject to character encodings etc. This has exposed several issues with the FPC Manual that I wanted to record. Could I ask one thing on behalf of people who try to maintain code so that

[fpc-pascal] Proposed tidy-up of the FPC Manual section on Character Types and the FPC Wiki

2017-08-18 Thread Tony Whyman
There has been some heated discussion on the Lazarus lists on the subject to character encodings etc. This has exposed several issues with the FPC Manual that I wanted to record. 1. The char type The manual says: "A Char is exactly 1 byte in size, and contains one ASCII character. " This