[fpc-devel] UTF8 RTL

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:25:00 +0100
Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:

>[...]
> Probably, yes. However:
> * since we're close to branching/releasing 2.8, I am not very much in  
> favour of still modifying core RTL routines like this for inclusion in  
> 2.8 (this also goes for the defaultformatsettings related patch you  
> posted to the bug tracker). I understand that this will make it harder  
> to use the current RTL with Lazarus, but that can be improved for  
> 2.8.2 yet. It's more important (to me) that what's there is stable,  
> than supporting everything but the kitchen sink and having annoying  
> bugs.

I guessed so. No problem. I can add workarounds for these issues in the
Lazarus code.


> * make functionality codepag-aware should be done for all platforms at  
> the same time, otherwise it will become impossible to write  
> cross-platform programs that have similar behaviour everywhere (and  
> the list at http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support#RTL_changes  
> will become unreadable, just like the documentation). In general you  
> need a specific implementation for Windows and for Unix, and for all  
> other platforms (which don't have codepage support yet) it's a  
> mechanical change that is more or less identical. See the commits to  
> the cpstrrtl branch for examples.

Ok.


Mattias