[fpc-devel] Delphi incompatible encoding

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:05:59 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> > 
> > Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote on ma, 01 dec 2014:
> 
> > To get behaviour that is compatible with Delphi2009+, compile with 
> > -Mdelphiunicode or {$modeswitch delphiunicode}.
> 
> The compiler option (-M) works, but the $modeswitch is not accepted by 
> the compiler (2.7.1): Illegal compiler switch "DELPHIUNICODE". The same 
> for {$mode ObjPas} - what else did I miss?
> 
> When I use Lazarus and set the compiler to the new 2.7.1, the modeswitch 
> does not cause an error.

You can set String=UnicodeString with 
-Mdelphiunicode
or {$Mode delphiunicode}
or {$ModeSwitch unicodestrings}

All require 2.7.1.

Mattias