[fpc-pascal] Funny things about utf-8 strings on mac

[David Pethes]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> Does anyone know what are those funny characters? (I suppose some kind
> of encoding setting)

Your Text editor saved those files with byte order mark (BOM) - see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark. Dunno about the second 
part of your question though, could be because the compiler treats the 
characters differently because of this.

David