[fpc-pascal] Delphi / FPC and UTF8 BOM

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said:
> > The solution has Windows written all over it (including viewer UTF-8 as a
> > codepage), but it has merits IMHO.
> 
> Are you sure about the encoding field for every string instance?

Yes.

> It could be done by compiler magic and an encoding field in the typeinfo
> too?

No, since then the runtime routines must be overloaded again, for each
compiler magic'ed type (all codepages +UTF-8, and another two).

A runtime routine must be able to detect what kind of string type it
receives, or you need a runtime routine per type.