On Wed, 3 May 2017 12:03:41 +0300 Juha Manninen via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>[...] > Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > Option a) You can use English in sources and load all non ASCII > > constants via resourcestrings or similar. Then the codepage is > > irrelevant. > > Option b) You can store all files as UTF-8 with BOM. Then FPC will > > store all non ASCII string constants as unicodestrings. Be careful when > > using PChar with them. This adds implicit conversions, so it might be > > slower. > > That must be very confusing. Why didn't you just tell him to use the > default Unicode support in Lazarus which allows to write Delphi > compatible code, just by remembering couple of rules. The "default Unicode support in Lazarus" is not compatible with Delphi. For compatibility it needs the BOM. Do you have a link where the couple of rules are listed? Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
