[fpc-pascal] TListBox bug in LCL of Lazarus?

[Vincent Snijders]

Jürgen Hestermann schreef:
>>> I used the Delphi-to-Lazarus convertion for my (Delphi) program. Why 
>>> isn't it also converting to UTF-8 if that's necessary?
>> Maybe we should consider removing the convert from the IDE, if it 
>> misleads more than helps.
> 
> I don't think so, it's better than nothing. The problem is, that there 
> are more pitfalls than the conversion routine handles (can handle?).
> 

Yes, and until that is fixed, it may be better to remove it, so we don't 
get such long threads and to spare you debug time.

> I just converted to UTF-8 but now got problems with constant strings in 
> MessageBox calls which require Ansi instead of UTF-8. It's quite awkward 
> if different codings are used within one source code file. I would have 
> expected that one single encoding (UTF-8?) is used throughout all source 
> code and all routines that need a different encoding do the conversion 
> themselve. Now each programmer has to learn for each and every routine 
> what encoding is used (and that's not even documented within the help 
> for these routines).

I think it should be simple: LCL UTF8, RTL Ansi.

Where is this messagebox call defined?

Vicnet