Hi, "official" Unicode support in FPC has been discussed for so long (years), that I came up with my own solution for fpGUI since 2007 (LCL did the similar) and it still works 100% and well tested. But now I want to learn what the FPC team finally came up with in FPC 3.0.
Is there some white paper, blog post, awesome MvC article that explains it all. And how it compares to Delphi's Unicode support (if this is important - though I don't use Delphi at all any more). For example, I looked at a few recent messages here and in the Lazarus mailing list. I also looked at a length discussion in the Lazarus Forum which had some example code. I tried out a few things with various String CodePage valuse and writeln() statements using a UTF-8 encoded .pas unit, and I got horrible results on my FreeBSD 10.1 system. The Unicode (UTF-8) output to console that I expected to work simply didn't. I need to figure out why. There seems to be a million and one tweaks (options) one can now apply to the FPC compiler, the RTL, different modes can be set in each unit etc. It is all very confusing. So basically what I'm asking, is there a Unicode (or is that the wrong term) chapter or something in the FPC documentation that describes all this in easy to understand English. The do's and don't, what works and what doesn't in FPC 3.0, is the RTL fully Unicode enabled now etc. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
