On 12 jun 2007, at 10:00, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
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}.Why does the codepage matter in this case? I would imagine that FPC just reads my string as a bunch of bytes... fpc doesn't need to perform any operations with it.
The compiler internally stores such strings as widestrings. I don't know the details of what the scanner does exactly with utf-8 and why it does so, but there's quite a few utf-8 specific code in the scanner.
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