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

[Paul Ishenin]

13.10.2011 16:14, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Paul Ishenin<ip at kmiac.ru>  wrote:
>> The later can be made by call SetMultiByteConversionCodePage(CP_UTF8) at the
>> program start.
>
>> From my comment on the bug report:
>
> Won't SetMultyByteConversionCodePage inadvertedly affect 3rd party
> libraries used by the program which, for example, execute something
> like:
>
> myansistring := mywidestring;
>
> And then expect myansistring to be in the system encoding?

It will affect as well as compiler directive you suggested to add.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.