[fpc-devel] Controlling the output of the widestring manager

[Florian Klaempfl]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I took a look at what would be necessary to implement
> controlling the output of the widestring manager, and implementing
> this looks rather trivial.
> 
> The only thing we need is a switch, to control if widestrings should
> be converted to the current locale or to utf-8. In the case of current
> locale one can use the current widestring function Wide2AnsiMoveProc .
> In case of utf-8 we can use the cross-platform UnicodeToUTF8 function.
> 
> I would start by adding a new field to TWideStringManager:
> 
> OutputUTF8ToStrings: Boolean;

As discussed on irc today, this is a no go for the rtl. Ansistrings are
encoded in the system encoding, this is a convention everything depends
on like all Ansi* routines in sysutils.  I give the bug report "I added
widestringmanager.outputformat := soUTF8; to my program, now
AnsiStrUpper doesn't work anymore", 1-2 weeks. It is fine if projects
break with the convention, but then they have to deal with it by e.g. by
overriding ansi<->wide conversion in the widestring manager.

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