[fpc-devel] Unicode resourcestrings

[Martin Schreiber]

On Friday 29 February 2008 09.25:18 Daniël Mantione wrote:
> Op Fri, 29 Feb 2008, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> > On Friday 29 February 2008 09.02:02 Daniël 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.
>
> There is utf8decode/utf8encode.
>
The big advantage of resourcestrings is that they can be used like normal 
string constants in the source. If I need to call utf8encode for every used 
stringconstant I can use the MSEgui widestring stockcaption facility instead.

> > Are there plans to implement unicode resourcestrings?
>
> No, but this is just because you are the first one to ask. Could you make
> a proposal? Then we'll see how this can be implemented.
>
Ideally from my point of view would be if the resourcestrings are stored in 
utf-8 if the unit is compiled with -Fcutf8 and decoded by utf8decode for 
widestring assignment on runtime independent of the system encoding.

Martin