[fpc-devel] bug report 20473: Please add a directive to define string=utf8string

[Paul Ishenin]

13.10.2011 15:29, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho пишет:
> Hello,
>
> Posting here as this was requested in the bug report:
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20473
>
> I think it is very simple: Having such a directive would save a lot of
> work when porting Lazarus-based projects to FPC 2.7
>

Wrote to that issue and writing here.

When String = AnsiString you only need the way to set codepage of 
ansistring constants to UTF8 and default codepage for conversions.

The first can be made either by {$codepage UTF8} directive or by -FcUTF8 
directive.

The later can be made by call SetMultiByteConversionCodePage(CP_UTF8) at 
the program start.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.