[fpc-devel] Unicode resourcestrings

Martin Schreiber fpmse at bluewin.ch
Fri Feb 29 09:49:52 CET 2008


On Friday 29 February 2008 09.27:08 Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > On Friday 29 February 2008 09.02:02 Dani?l Mantione wrote:
> > > Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Is there a way in current FPC to have unicode or wide
> > > > resourcestrings? Thanks,
> > >
> > > Resourcestrings are ansistrings, so the answer is no. This is indeed a
> > > shortcoming in a widestring environment, the only solution is probably
> > > to encode them UTF-8.
> >
> > This works with utf-8 system encoding only -> not in an usual Windows
> > installation.
>
> Afaik XP+ supports UTF-8, and it could be it is also backported to 2000?

MSEgui applications should run on win95/98 and on every locale encoding the 
user wants to use.

Martin



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