[fpc-devel] utf8 in 2.6.0

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 01 January 2013 15:24:05 Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 01 Jan 2013, at 15:14, Martin wrote:
> > On my hardware it is normally all fine, but fails if I add the $codepage.
> > I could spent a lot of work boiling that down to a sample. But given that
> > I couldn't even find the docs what I really should expect,
>
> Without a {$codepage xxx} directive, string constants containing characters
> > #127 remain exactly as they appear in the source code.
>
> With a {$codepage xxx} directive, string constants containing characters >
> #127 are converted into unicodestrings during the parsing (according to the
> specified code page), and converted back into ansistrings (using the "ansi"
> code page of that particular program run) at run time if they are assigned
> to ansistring/shortstrings or passed to routines expecting such parameters.
>
> Note that the above is for 2.6.x (as the subject mentions).
>
How does it work in trunk?

Martin