[fpc-devel] FPC 2.3.1 seems a mixed mess with Unicode support

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Sep 2009, at 13:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> ian Klaempfl het geskryf:
>>
>> Do you use the cwstrings unit? Did you tell the encoding (UTF-8?)  
>> to the
>> compiler? Did you use the UnicodeChar instead of Char?
>
>
> Yes to all, and the example still doesn't work.
>
> ------------------------
> $ ./test3
> ä
> ------------------------
>
> ä  is not 世 as the website described the result to be.

That's because you did not specify the code page of the source code,  
in which case it's parsed as CP 8859-1. Add {$codepage utf-8} or save  
the file with an UTF-8 BOM and it will work fine.


Jonas