[fpc-pascal] International Characters in Console mode programs...

[Rimgaudas Laucius]

Hello,

i cast a look at 2.0.4 source - it does not solves this kind of problems. I 
guess you prepared program using FP IDE. It uses OEM CP (CP857 for Turkish) 
for source encoding. Compiler misencodes these strings because i guess it 
uses RTL widestring manager whitch assumes source encoded in ACP (Windows 
1254 for turkish).

Solution: Widestrings and FP IDE are not compatible. 1) use strings instead 
of widestrings 2) use unicode (UTF-8) enabled editor instead of FP.

For developers:
Do not you consider write(widestring) implementation without conversion into 
ansistring better? For example: writting into console may be implemented 
using WriteConsole(W) instead of WriteFile.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco van de Voort" <marcov at stack.nl>
To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] International Characters in Console mode 
programs...


>> I cannot manage to print any Turkish characters in console. (Code Page
>> ISO-8859-9), I use Windows XP Turkish, I can type and display Turkish
>> characters, but if my FP program's output displays these kind of text,
>> only spaces or "?" appear instead of intended characters. I use
>> widestrings to represent these chars. There is something I don't do
>> right I am sure, but what is it? Thanks in advance.
>
> This is one of the issues that 2.0.4 should at least improve upon. See the
> 2.0.4 versions on the FTP site.
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