[fpc-pascal] FPC 3: disabling automatic AnsiString codepage conversion

tobiasgiesen at gmail.com tobiasgiesen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 11:47:23 CEST 2016


> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, tobiasgiesen at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >> Your question was not about Lazarus but maybe you should read this:
> >>   http://wiki.freepascal.org/Better_Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus
> >
> > Very interesting, but apparently there is some wrong info.
> >
> > It says "On Linux and Mac OS X UTF-8 is typically the system codepage, so the RTL uses
> > here by default CP_UTF8."
> >
> > Not on my Mac. DefaultSystemCodePage is 20127 before I set it to 65001.
> >
> > Should I fix this bit on the documentation page?
> 
> No. It says 'typically'.

That's the first part of the sentence.

The second part says: "the RTL uses here by default CP_UTF8."

That is wrong. It does not (at least not on Mac). This must be fixed.

Cheers,
Tobias




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