[fpc-devel] Encoded AnsiString

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> 30.12.2013 9:07, Hans-Peter Diettrich пишет:
>> Do you think that FPC should really reproduce all this inconsistent 
>> behaviour? Who would test or even specify the compatible behaviour, when 
>> every new variation will result in more unexpected results? IMO it's much 
>> easier to do it right, and fix the Delphi flaws in FPC.
>
> The work is already done by FPC team. AnsiString(codepage) works and works 
> compatible with Delphi (whether someone like this or not) and the behavior is 
> covered by tests. Trunk version is very close to 2.8 release. The only 
> related thing which we thought to touch before the release was resourcestring 
> handling. If I have some free time during the new year holidays I will look 
> at it.
>
> So how one can help at this stage:
>
> 1. Check related FPC tests and write new for the missing cases.
> 2. Compare FPC and Delphi RTL classes which had beed adjusted in Delphi 
> during the unicodestring move and check whether something minor can be added 
> to FPC.
>
> All major changes like the new TStringList class based on UnicodeString 
> should wait for 2.8 release.

I don't think that this is a good idea, it means that e.g. TStrings.SaveToFile() 
or TFileStream.Create() is still crippled. Better bite the bullet. 
This is what I wanted to test in feb/march.

Michael.