On Friday 29 February 2008 10.07:29 Daniël Mantione wrote: > Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber: > > On Friday 29 February 2008 09.25:18 Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber: > >>> On Friday 29 February 2008 09.02:02 Daniël Mantione wrote: > >>>> Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> Is there a way in current FPC to have unicode or wide > >>>>> resourcestrings? Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> Resourcestrings are ansistrings, so the answer is no. This is indeed a > >>>> shortcoming in a widestring environment, the only solution is probably > >>>> to encode them UTF-8. > >>> > >>> This works with utf-8 system encoding only -> not in an usual Windows > >>> installation. > >> > >> There is utf8decode/utf8encode. > > > > The big advantage of resourcestrings is that they can be used like normal > > string constants in the source. If I need to call utf8encode for every > > used stringconstant I can use the MSEgui widestring stockcaption facility > > instead. > > > >>> Are there plans to implement unicode resourcestrings? > >> > >> No, but this is just because you are the first one to ask. Could you > >> make a proposal? Then we'll see how this can be implemented. > > > > Ideally from my point of view would be if the resourcestrings are stored > > in utf-8 if the unit is compiled with -Fcutf8 and decoded by utf8decode > > for widestring assignment on runtime independent of the system encoding. > > This has been discussed before. Automatic conversion to/from ansistrings > will always be to/from system encoding. If you want another encoding than > the system encoding you will have to do a manual conversion. > > For the compiler, a resourcestring has the same type as an ansistring, so > no distinction can be made between resourcestrings/ansistrings. > Another suggestion:
implementation resourcestrings resstring1 = 'abc'; resstring2 = '1234'; resourcewidestrings resstring3 = 'abc'; resstring4 = '1234'; procedure test; var wstr1,wstr2: widestring; begin wstr1:= resstring3; //no conversion wstr2:= resstring1; //uses system encoding to convert end; Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
