Jonas Maebe schrieb: > > On 13 jun 2007, at 07:32, Daniël Mantione wrote: > >> Op Wed, 13 Jun 2007, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: >> >>> How would I then be sure that my string is never converted (or always >>> converted from utf-8 to utf-8 if prefered), but just passed like I >>> wrote it to the library that I am using? >> >> Add the cwstring unit, and run it in an utf-8 terminal. > > Sorry, but this view is too "terminal-centric" as far as I am concerned. > That's not something you want to tell users of a GUI app. Or even > programmers, for that matter. I really don't see a reason why this > should not be configurable by the programmer himself.
Well, then something with the design is wrong. Ansistrings are per definition strings which use the default 8 bit encoding of the environment. Putting always utf-8 into them is abusing them and that's why there is an utf8string type in the system unit. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
