[fpc-devel] Having an always utf-8 string

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Mon, 16 Jul 2007, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like which would be the theoritical way that Free Pascal could
> support an always utf-8 encoded string (if it will be supported). With
> that I mean a string which when set by code is converted from
> widestring to utf-8 in despite of any environmental conditions, or
> operating system conditions. So I can open a feature request for it.
> 
> Based on past discussion, I assume that the prefered way would be
> using the UTF8String type, is that correct?
> 
> Another option would be having the possibility to manually change the
> output format of the widestring managed.
> 
> I think this gets more important as Lazarus moves to UTF-8.

a) We indeed need some configurability in the widestringmanager.
b) Ignoring the environment seems a bad idea to me.
c) There exists utf8decode/utfencode, so I do not see the problem for UTF-8?

Daniël