[fpc-devel] String handling in trunk (was utf8 in 2.6.0)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Jan 2013, at 12:36, Sven Barth wrote:

> On 05.01.2013 12:28, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> And again, sorry for the impertinence, how do resource strings fit in the
>>> string handling scenario of Free Pascal trunk?
>> 
>> Unicode support for resourcestrings is still not available in FPC trunk. They can currently still only be used safely for ASCII content.
> 
> What about UTF8 content?

You can put anything in it and it may or may not work depending on the current system code page, but afaik the only thing that is guaranteed to work at this time is plain ASCII.


Jonas