[fpc-devel] assign constant text to widestring

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008, schreef Michael Schnell:

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>> 
>> The compiler definitively eats no ucs-2 encoded sources.
>> 
> I did check several times: My source file looks like this when I open it with 
> Ultra-Edit and tell to show it in Hex:
> FF FE 75 00 6E 0069 00 74 00 20 00 55 00 6E 00 ..u.n.i.t. .U.n.
>
> Now I created a Delphi program and read the file with TFileStream.
>
> Now I found a utf-8 coded information without a BOM.
>
> So Windows seems to play some nasty tricks on us. Supposedly FPC reads the 
> file in a similar way as TFileStream and thus the compiler in fact sees utf8.

The compiler uses blockread and performs no such conversions.

Daniël