[fpc-pascal] UTF8 codepage for file in trunk: codepage constant names?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 08 Jan 2014, at 19:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> On 08/01/2014 17:17, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> The codepage names used by the codepage directive are  
>> (unfortunately, I
>> guess) unrelated to the code page numbers:
>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu88.html
>>
>> They are the names of individual codepage units exposed by the  
>> charset
>> unit, which have names such as cp866 and cp1251. In fact, in  
>> general I
>> think you can just prefix the code page number with "cp" (other  
>> than for
>> utf8, which is built into the compiler and can be accessed via utf8  
>> or
>> utf-8).
>>
>> Note that this codepage functionality has been in FPC since 2.4.x
>> already (or maybe 2.6.0). It's not new in any way.
>
> Thanks a lot, Jonas.

I think that adding links to the manual pages on the wiki is generally  
not a good idea, because the names of those pages change with every  
FPC release. The exception are pages for units documentation, as those  
have fixed names.

The way I find such pages is via google, so maybe a link to https://www.google.be/search?q=site:www.freepascal.org+codepage 
  is better. At least it will always be up-to-date.


Jonas