[fpc-devel] passing unicode seach paths on windows

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2023-08-30 13:56, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How to pass unicode search paths to fpc?
> 
> For example when passing a -Fu as UTF8 via a config file "@my.cfg", fpc 
> says:
> Path: "C:\pascal\...gibberish..." not found
> 
> Is there some flag I'm missing or does fpc not support unicode search
> paths on windows?
> 
> Tested with 3.2.2 and 3.3.1.

First of all, I don't think that the compiler supports reading 
configuration files (search paths or whatever else) in a different 
codepage than the current ACP. Since that won't be UTF-8 on MS Windows, 
this is not supported. As far as I know, -Fc... is used only for source 
files, not for configuration files, and it's probably more appropriate 
that way. It might be possible to add special support for recognizing 
the BOMs and use that for deciding on the format, but nothing like that 
has been implemented yet for the compiler according to my knowledge.

Tomas