cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Tomas Hajny]

On 12 Nov 09, at 0:01, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2009, at 23:54, Tomas Hajny wrote:
> 
> > Are character sets recognized by numeric values under Mac OS X?
> 
> There are two ways to deal with them. One is libiconv, like on any  
> *nix platform (which, afaik, only supports string identifiers). The  
> other is CFString, which uses numeric values: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/constant_group/External_String_Encodings
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These Mac OS X could not be used by Delphi directly in any case 
because some of the values would not fit into 2 bytes (constants for 
all the Unicode encodings fall into this category apparently), so I 
guess that their choice is more or less clear, especially if Mac OS X 
already provides direct support for mapping between Windows codepage 
numbers and the internal constants out of the box...

Tomas