[fpc-devel] Delphi incompatible encoding

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Sven Barth schrieb:
> Am 01.12.2014 10:33 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com 
> <mailto:DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>>:
>  > Another one:
>  > Delphi XE does not export the CP_xxx encoding constants from 
> System.pas. This means that the encoding constants are not available in 
> (compatible) user code.
> 
> It's not the first and likely not the last we export from a different 
> unit than Delphi. There will *always* be differences which already 
> starts with Integer that is declared as an alias to LongInt in the 
> ObjPas unit in FPC.

Well, Integer (and String...) are generic types, adjustable to the 
"best" overall performance on every target - whatever "best" will mean.

>  > CP_NONE is declared in Windows.pas for clipping, as:
>  >   CP_NONE      = 0;     { No clipping of output             }
>  > different from the CP_NONE encoding ($FFFF).
> 
> Do they really not have a CP_NONE constant in System?

No, not even in the definition of RawByteString, and not in any other 
standard (RTL...) source file (except Windows.pas, see above).

DoDi