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

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Nov 27, 2007 8:37 PM, Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
> A more generic solution is necessary; one can want to output strings in a
> specific encoding, utf-8 is only one of the specific encodings that are
> demanded. Therefore a boolean is not a good solution.

Win32Wide2Ansi just calls WideCharToMultiByte, which reading ms docs:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776420.aspx

I couldn't find any way to output to an arbitrary encoding. I don't
know if this situation is similar on linux.

So it may be impossible to implement what you suggest in a reasonable way.

Having said that I consider outputing always to an encoding which
isn't the current locale and isn't utf-8 a very corner use case, if it
has any utility at all. Being a very corner case one could use a
special library to achieve it.

thanks,
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho