On 12 jun 2007, at 09:28, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
I edited my source code with TextWrangler (a macintosh text editor), setting the encoding to utf-8, and when I opened with Lazarus it would show the beginning of the file like this: Ôªøunit mainform; Notice the first 3 funny characters (actually on lazarus I see different characters, but they changed on copy+paste).
They are the standard marker to identify a file as UTF-8. This is not Mac-specific in any way, it's part of the unicode standard.
(I suppose some kind of encoding setting), and why they make utf-8 strings sudenlly stop working?
You said things did initially work with the UTF-8 marker in place. The default code page used by FPC is 8859-1. However, the scanner detects the UTF-8 marker if present, and when it finds it then it switches the code page to UTF-8. You can also set the code page manually to UTF-8 using {$codepage utf-8}.
The UTF-8 marker maybe got mangled somehow by Lazarus or so. I don't know why it worked again afterwards when you removed the marker.
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