[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:59 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
> No, why do you think so ?

Well, at the very least:

1> All var parameters from the RTL will no longer be directly usable
with UTF-8 strings

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/appendstr.html

How can I pass a UTF-8 string to AppendStr in the Unicode RTL?

The Example62 from the docs will no longer compile =D

2> TStrings will be in a different encoding from the rest of the LCL,
this will surely be very nasty.
MyForm.Caption := MyStrings.Strings[9]; and you get an encoding conversion...

Basically it will be a salad of automatic conversions done by the compiler...

3> FileOpen(MyForm.Caption, whatever_mode);
You get first utf-8 -> utf-16 to call FileOpen and then FileOpen does
utf-16->utf-8 on UNIXes

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho