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

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Jan 9 15:12:16 CET 2014



On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> On 09/01/2014 14:49, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> On 08 Jan 2014, at 19:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> On 08/01/2014 17:17, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I see your point, but I think that people should just regularly update
> the wiki as information gets outdated etc.
> If people cannot go from a broken link to typing in the keyword it
> points to in a search engine, well....

That is a dangerous path you step onto.
There are so many things I think are so incredibly obvious ;-)

Michael.



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