On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:30 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: >>> 1. Assign a constant always to a type String variable. >> >> What do you mean? Instead of create a constant, is it better create a >> String variable and assign the string to it? > > From FPC's point of view our UTF-8 solution is a hack. In practice it > means that success in assigning string literals depends on the string > type. > This: > S := 'Have 🍷 for FPC 💓 Lazarus'; > always works if "S" is a "String". It may not work with other string types. > It is all explained in the wiki page.
I understood, thanks. > When all your string data is Unicode then you can code in a Delphi > compatible way. > Only the Windows system codepages impose a problem, but I got an > impression you don't need them now. I am develop on Windows. What problems do you mean? Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus