[fpc-devel] utf-8 package in Free Pascal

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> On 10/04/2011 10:59 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> Yes. Each string will have a codepage identifier associated with it.
>> if, during an assign operation, a difference exists, a conversion will 
>> occur.
>> (there are of course some exceptions)
>>
> GREAT !

Not really :-(

> I wonder when Lazarus will be able to follow and use this string type 
> for the complete library.

The LCL will use one unique encoding, most probably UTF-8 as the only 
losless Unicode representation. This means that strings with different 
encoding are converted whenever passed to a control, or read from it.

DoDi