In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > I'm not sure what you are suggesting as alternative. Saving the encoding at > > startup, so it can be reused in cases like this, in case somebody change > > defaultsystemcodepage? > > > > Or using defaultsystemcodepage instead of filesystem encoding? > > Why not simply make the exec calls use RawByteString ? > > It is then the responsability of the programmer. > 99,99% of cases it will get passed the correct system encoding, and if need > be the programmer can change it.
I don't like that. The 3.x idea is to get rid of manual conversions and hack-and-convert-it-as-you-go encoding management, not just rebadge the old practices to rawbytestring. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
