[fpc-pascal] Console Encoding in Windows (Local VS. UTF8)

[Michael Schnell]

On 07/09/2013 12:55 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> Well, the main reason is not FPC, but Windows. UTF8 in Windows on 
> _API_ level is simply not a good idea

You are absolutely right.

Here, in theory the Lazarus LCL and the FPC RTL could help by by 
providing an application programmer API that does not force a dedicated 
encoding. But to do so without the necessity to provide multiple OS 
depending versions of the LCL and RTL interface definition, it would 
need the compiler to provide support this.

In a perfect world the application programmer could use the encoding he 
thinks is appropriate for the internals of his busyness logic and the 
programming system does the correct things do use the API of the OS the 
program is compiled for (while for optimum performance do code 
conversions only when necessary).

-Michael