On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:38:49 +0200 Juha Manninen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any automatic type conversion would kill the application. > > [...] > > will this be possible with future versions of Lazarus ,as well ? > > I guess you mean automatic encoding conversion for strings. (?) > The automatic conversion is NOT a feature of Lazarus. It is a feature > of FPC 3.0+. > If you don't want it then you can continue using FPC 2.6.4. It is a > valid choice in some cases, thus Lazarus will support FPC 2.6.4 for > some time to come. True, although the wording might be misleading. FPC 3.0+ does not arbitrarily change encoding of strings. That's why the LCL can use UTF-8 in AnsiStrings even without the new UTF-8 mode. It then works pretty similar to FPC 2.6.4. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
