[fpc-devel] SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable(String) still uses GetEnvironmentVariableA

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 23 May 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote:

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> Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Mon, 23 May 2016:
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>> The typecase will not help you, since the result is an ansistring.
>> The result will still be crippled.
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> It would help when DefaultSystemCodePage is changed to UTF-8, as Lazarus 
> does.

Should that not be multibytecodepage or so ?

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>> The only solution for this is a unicode RTL.
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> That is incorrect, since as he wrote the unicodestring version of 
> GetEnvironmentVariable() already exists in our RTL today. It's just that it's 
> only used if you pass it a unicodestring argument, which won't be be the case 
> in most Lazarus programs by default.

Aha. I didn't know we already had an overloaded version. I stand corrected !

Michael.