[fpc-devel] Russian locale information not compatible with FPC locale variables

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:08 PM, "Vinzent Höfler"
<JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Well, I second that. Especially because the "Delphi" implementation seems to be so Win32-centric, that copying it would be close to useless on platforms other than Windows. As far as I understand there is no such thing as a "codepage number" on Unices.
>
> I doubt that the FPC team would want such a specific implementation, so despite all arguments, FPC would have to find its own way in either case.
>


For more information on what Vinzent is talking about, please see the
following website.

  http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/2008/07/16/38864/

examples:

type
  MyString = type AnsiString(<1..65534>);

were 1..65534 is the Windows codepage number.


Regards,
 - Graeme -


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