On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > is dangerous if they are not all the same encoding. If there is any > > mismatch, it will be converted down to default encoding. > > Then the implementation is wrong.
Wrong according to you. Not wrong according to defined Microsoft applications. This way of top-down thinking will turn FPC into a Java, where you are lugging along an own platform-within-an-platform everywhere. IMHO this is not desirable. > > There is no utf8 on Windows. > > Yep, that's why the Unicode (W) API should be used. No problem with > UTF-8 strings there :-) If you totally drop Delphi compatibility you can do whatever you want. But IMHO that is more something for the Graeme's and Martin (MSEGUI's) of the world, not Lazarus. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
