[fpc-devel] Delphi incompatible encoding

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:32:13 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:05:59 +0100
> > Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > Many things affect string literals. Source codepage, system codepage,
> > string type, defaultsystemcodepage, library, compiler version.
> > 
> > I started a table for UTF-8 literals:
> > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Character_and_string_types#String_constants
> 
> Thanks, after some reading I changed the sourcefile encoding, and both 
> UTF8bom and Ansi provide correct results. The Lazarus default (UTF-8 
> without BOM) is not usable on Windows :-(

You need to add conversions.

With the new DefaultSystemCodePage many of them are no longer needed.

Mattias