[fpc-pascal] FPC 3: disabling automatic AnsiString codepage conversion

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, tobiasgiesen at gmail.com wrote:

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>> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, tobiasgiesen at gmail.com wrote:
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>>>> Your question was not about Lazarus but maybe you should read this:
>>>>   http://wiki.freepascal.org/Better_Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus
>>>
>>> Very interesting, but apparently there is some wrong info.
>>>
>>> It says "On Linux and Mac OS X UTF-8 is typically the system codepage, so the RTL uses
>>> here by default CP_UTF8."
>>>
>>> Not on my Mac. DefaultSystemCodePage is 20127 before I set it to 65001.
>>>
>>> Should I fix this bit on the documentation page?
>>
>> No. It says 'typically'.
>
> That's the first part of the sentence.
>
> The second part says: "the RTL uses here by default CP_UTF8."
>
> That is wrong. It does not (at least not on Mac). This must be fixed.

Why do you think it is wrong ? 
It is perhaps wrong on your computer. Maybe it checks the environment ?
Did you include clocale ? etc. There are maybe a 100 things that can change
this.

Don't be too hasty in changing things. 
Jonas (who created that page) is usually very careful in such matters.

Michael.