[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 15/09/2011 11:38, Michael Schnell wrote:
> is bound to create problems. But it is what generations of pascal 
> programmers are trained to do. They all need to be re-trained.

Just like all Delphi developers had to since Delphi 2009+.  Obviously,
the RTL could cater for it, or implement more obviously named functions
to hint to the developer what is going to be returned.


>> How is that 'Öse' entered into the system.
> I was assuming a current Lazarus version as an IDE and here UTF-8 is 
> used.

Still makes no difference. You could have entered it as one combined
code point, or as two "characters" displaying as one. :-)

It is a pity Lazarus IDE doesn't support Ctrl+Shift+U to enter Unicode
characters - like normal GTK2 edit widgets do. It is very convenient.
But they do have the Character Map I guess.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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