On Sun, 7 May 2017 10:10:26 +0200
Florian Klaempfl via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> Am 05.05.2017 um 13:35 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus:
> > On 2017-05-05 12:17, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
> >> I wonder if it would help if FPC would store UTF-8 string literals as
> >> UTF-8
> >
> > Yeah, that would be the logical thing to do.
>
> Why? What makes a string literal UTF-8?
Here: $codepage utf-8 and non ASCII.
> > FPC not doing that is what
> > really confused me.
>
> You have to distinuish between source encoding and string encoding.
Yes, but sometimes the string encoding is not obvious:
{$codepage utf8}
const s = 'äöüالعَرَبِيَّة';
begin
writeln(s); // needs widestringmanager
end.
Mattias
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