> > I use TStringList for UTF-8 strings. This is no longer possible, because > > automatic conversions cause question marks and data loss. > > Lazarus uses TStringList with UTF-8 all over the place. > > Please post a complete example demonstrating the problem.
Sorry - this was only theoretical, because of the Backward compatibility section on the FPC Unicode Support page. It says that a "defined way" to use strings is "you do not store data in an ansistring that has been encoded using something else than the system's default code page, and subsequently pass this string as-is to an FPC RTL routine". That would mean I cannot use TStringList for UTF-8. The paragraph is misleading, really. Very theoretical. What you really need to tell people is something like this: "Unicode aware Pascal code needs to set DefaultSystemCodePage to CP_UTF8". I am sorry but I was really shocked this morning when I saw the question marks :) Cheers, Tobias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
