[fpc-devel] UTF-8 string literals

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.05.2017 15:55 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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> On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>> On Fri, 5 May 2017 14:30:32 +0200 (CEST)
>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>>> > AFAIK FPC stores UTF-8 string literals (-Fcutf8) as widestrings
>>> > instead of UTF8String. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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> To make sure I was presenting correct facts, I did some tests.
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> As a result of the tests, I think the above statement is wrong.

In all three cases you are either explicitly or implicitly forcing the
compiler to convert it to Ansi/UTF-8 and since it's a constant it takes a
compiletime shortcut.
If you'd do a Writeln without the typecast then it will be a UTF-16
constant that is stored in the binary *if* the string contains a character
> $7F.

Regards,
Sven
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