[fpc-devel] utf8 in 2.6.0

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Dec 2012, at 19:35, Martin wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to do that, or what I do wrong. I found a page about $codepage, but it did not help http://wiki.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support
> I didnt find the fpc specific page, if exists (I suspect it does)
> 
> 
> I am calling a function "function Foo(A:string)" {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
> I call it with a constant, that contains an german umlaut. Checked with a hex editor, the constant in the source file is utf8
> 
> - If I save the source (in utf8), without a utf8 BOM, then it works fine on windows.
> - If I had a bom, then the string received by the function appears to be ascii (checked memory dump in debugger "oe" becomes d6
> - if I add {$codepage utf8} it also becomes ascii
> 
> If I do *not* add that, it seems something gos wrong with the encoding on a PowerPC Mac. Unfortunately this is someone else's pc, and I have no more info.
> If I add it things also go wrong, only different. Again no more info.
> 
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> 
> I know the provided info, is very little.

There is not enough information to be able to give an answer. Source code, source code, source code.


Jonas