[fpc-devel] TRegistry and Unicode

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op 01-03-19 om 22:19 schreef Bart:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:49 AM Marco van de Voort
> <core at pascalprogramming.org> wrote:
> 
>> If I look into e.g. registry.pp, the only use of utf8encode there is
>> like this:
>>
>> var  s : string;
>>
>>          u:unicodestring;
>>
>> s:=utf8encode(u);
>>
>> which, IF lazarus is used in the default utf8 mode is equivalent to
>>
>>
>> s:=u;
>>
>>    So currently this utf8encode only frustrates the situation for people
>> that don't set the default codepage to utf8?
> 
> Exactly.
> It also breaks backwards compatibility.
> Strings returned were encode in the systems codepage up to 3.0.4, now
> thy are not.

The utf8encode should go, just like the utf8decode's that we fixed already.

Regards,

Joost.