Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Dennis
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2016-04-02 13:16, Santiago A. wrote: similar should be done. You would need to make compulsory a command in source code to tell which code set is using. I would hope anybody in this day and age only uses UTF-8 for text files and source code. It was designed to

Re: [Lazarus] PDF generator, try 2

2016-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-04-01 20:16, Jesus Reyes A. wrote: >P.WriteUTF8Text(15, 120, 'Languages: English: Hello, World!'); >P.WriteUTF8Text(40, 130, 'Greek: -FÃåéÜ óïõ êüóìïò'); >P.WriteUTF8Text(40, 140, 'Polish: Witaj -B¶wiecie'); >P.WriteUTF8Text(40, 150, 'Portuguese: Ol-Aá mundo'); > > Of

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-04-02 13:16, Santiago A. wrote: > similar should be done. You would need to make compulsory a command in > source code to tell which code set is using. I would hope anybody in this day and age only uses UTF-8 for text files and source code. It was designed to solve the multiple CodePages

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Santiago A.
El 02/04/2016 a las 12:32, Special escribió: > Why? What's so bad with TButton.Name "StraßeButton" to select "Straße" > in, for instance, a school program for german kids? Messing with ascii codes above 127 is a problem. Look the mess in strings with different char code sets. Are we going to

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2016-04-02 um 12:32 schrieb Special: > Why? What's so bad with TButton.Name "StraßeButton" to select "Straße" in, for instance, a school program for german kids? I am german too and I also would not like to have this. Just think about programs written by japanese or chinese programmers using

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Special
Why? What's so bad with TButton.Name "StraßeButton" to select "Straße" in, for instance, a school program for german kids? Am 02.04.2016 um 11:54 schrieb Werner Pamler: Am 02.04.2016 um 11:35 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 April

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Werner Pamler
Am 02.04.2016 um 11:35 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2016 10:30:51 Mattias Gaertner wrote: We have many Delphi Programs with German Umlauts in component names and would like to go to Lazarus with them. Any hints? This is

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Martin Schreiber wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2016 10:30:51 Mattias Gaertner wrote: We have many Delphi Programs with German Umlauts in component names and would like to go to Lazarus with them. Any hints? This is not supported by FPC yet. Not supported *yet*?

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Saturday 02 April 2016 10:30:51 Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > We have many Delphi Programs with German Umlauts in component names and > > would like to go to Lazarus with them. > > Any hints? > > This is not supported by FPC yet. Not supported *yet*? Shudder. Martin --

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Special wrote: How can I use names with German Umlauts and 'ß' in the Name Field of TButton components? For instance, I try to set MyButton.Name to "Schließenbutton" and get an error message "Komponentenname Schließenbutton ist kein gültiger Bezeichner". This happens

Re: [Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:14:24 +0200 Special wrote: > How can I use names with German Umlauts and 'ß' in the Name Field of > TButton components? For instance, I try to set MyButton.Name to > "Schließenbutton" and get an error message "Komponentenname > Schließenbutton ist

[Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

2016-04-02 Thread Special
How can I use names with German Umlauts and 'ß' in the Name Field of TButton components? For instance, I try to set MyButton.Name to "Schließenbutton" and get an error message "Komponentenname Schließenbutton ist kein gültiger Bezeichner". This happens with Lazarus 1.6 and FPC 3.0.0 under Win

Re: [Lazarus] Xamarin becomes free and open-source

2016-04-02 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 08:58:14AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: they've learned to love on Linux. I seriously doubt this will have any effect. Most (if not all) of their admin tools are GUI based. That makes scripting them impossibile.