[fpc-devel] UTF-8 string literals

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2017 15:55:32 +0200 (CEST)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 5 May 2017 14:30:32 +0200 (CEST)
>> > Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> [...] 
>> >> > AFAIK FPC stores UTF-8 string literals (-Fcutf8) as widestrings
>> >> > instead of UTF8String. Please correct me if I'm wrong. 
>> 
>> To make sure I was presenting correct facts, I did some tests.
>> 
>> As a result of the tests, I think the above statement is wrong.
>
> Naah, not wrong, just a non precise term "UTF-8 string literal". ;)
>
> ASCII is stored by FPC as 8-bit string. No problem with that.
> The interesting part are the non ASCII strings. Try your code with
> the string examples I gave.

I used non-ascii. Did you not see the russian characters ?

Michael.