Summary on Re: [fpc-pascal] Unicode file routines proposal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>>   
>> If compiler magic is at work, wouldn't all this reduce to s[1] giving 
>> the first char no matter the char size? 
> 
> Where does the "magic" gets its information is my point.

I described this already in detail in my first mail: just in one of the
four bytes available for storing the encoding.