[fpc-devel] fpc compiler wrong encoding in console output on Windows

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 30.08.2023 17:35, Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel wrote:
> On 2023-08-30 17:23, Ondrej Pokorny via fpc-devel wrote:
>> Sorry to bother you with something as trivial: is your t2.pas file
>> really encoded in UTF-8?
>>
>> Because if I compile an ANSI file with the {$codepage utf8}
>> declaration, then I get "correct" output. But obviously this is very
>> wrong.
>>
>> You can try yourself with the attached files. So maybe this is your 
>> mistake?
>
> Well, you're right, this was indeed my mistake, shame on me. :-( Then 
> I can confirm that the compiler behaviour is indeed wrong (although I 
> have no clue why it behaves that way).

Having seen the outputs, I think that the compiler just ignores the 
source file encoding for {$MESSAGE} and {$NOTE}. It reads them always as 
ANSI and then converts them to DOS-whatever.

That would explain why UTF-8 byte stream is encoded into DOS CP.

So the fix should be quite easy - when {$MESSAGE} or {$NOTE} is read 
into a string, set the correct codepage of the string.

Ondrej