[fpc-pascal] UTF8 codepage for file in trunk: codepage constant names?

[Sven Barth]

Am 09.01.2014 14:49, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>
> On 08 Jan 2014, at 19:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>
>> On 08/01/2014 17:17, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>>
>>> The codepage names used by the codepage directive are (unfortunately, I
>>> guess) unrelated to the code page numbers:
>>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu88.html
>>>
>>> They are the names of individual codepage units exposed by the charset
>>> unit, which have names such as cp866 and cp1251. In fact, in general I
>>> think you can just prefix the code page number with "cp" (other than 
>>> for
>>> utf8, which is built into the compiler and can be accessed via utf8 or
>>> utf-8).
>>>
>>> Note that this codepage functionality has been in FPC since 2.4.x
>>> already (or maybe 2.6.0). It's not new in any way.
>>
>> Thanks a lot, Jonas.
>
> I think that adding links to the manual pages on the wiki is generally 
> not a good idea, because the names of those pages change with every 
> FPC release. The exception are pages for units documentation, as those 
> have fixed names.
>
> The way I find such pages is via google, so maybe a link to 
> https://www.google.be/search?q=site:www.freepascal.org+codepage is 
> better. At least it will always be up-to-date.
@Michael: Do you think it would be somehow possible to generate 
persistent links for the language reference, etc. , maybe based on the 
topic names?

Regards,
Sven