[fpc-devel] twide3.pp on windows

[Vincent Snijders]

Yury Sidorov schreef:
> From: "Daniël Mantione" <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org>
>> Op Mon, 16 Jul 2007, schreef Yury Sidorov:
>>
>> > > There must be, because the CRT unit currently seems to do such > > 
>> vodoo
>> > > (which is questionable behaviour by the way).
>> >
>> > Yes. It is possible to specify code pages for console, gui > 
>> controls, etc. But
>> > application must do it in runtime.
>>
>> Perfect, this is what twide3 needs.
> 
> It is not possible to change code page used for wide<>ansi translation 
> per applicaton.
> 
>> > Oh, yes it will not work on Windows, because utf8 is not supported > 
>> here.
>> >
>> > Then, twide3.pp should be skipped on Windows, since it is not > 
>> possible to do
>> > it in locale independant way.
>>
>> Well, the test could be adapted to use some kind of code page. It could
>> work on all platforms then.
> 
> This test will work on Windows only if utf8 support will be added to 
> Windows rtl.
> 

I changed my windows settings to Polish and it now uses codepage 1250 
(before it was 1252), now it runs successfully.

Vincent