On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
The output for me is the same, regardless of the -FcUTF-8 flag being
present
or not: question marks.
But if I add
uses cwstring;
all will be well.
Rationale:
Without that, the RTL cannot convert whatever the compiler wrote in
the binary to UTF8 to display it on the console.
The compiler people will need to explain what exactly the compiler writes
with or without the flag.
Well, this should at least produce a warning, if not an error. Silently
producing the wrong code is not a good idea.
Strictly speaking, there is no wrong code produced:
You didn't configure your environment to deal correctly with Unicode.
You're using the default widestring manager, which simply skips any non-ascii
characters.
All this is documented in various places, for example:
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/unicodesupport.html
Michael.
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