[fpc-pascal] FPC 3 regression: cannot use TStringList for UTF-8 data any more?

[Michael Schnell]

On 04/13/2016 09:04 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> It uses the DefaultSystemcodepage. If the system codepage is UTF8, then
> it will use UTF8.
>
(Sorry for replying yet another answer to the same message of yours)


http://wiki.freepascal.org/Better_Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus says:
> On the other hand a *String* is assumed at compile time to have 
> /DefaultSystemCodePage/ (CP_ACP). /DefaultSystemCodePage/ is defined 
> at run time, so the compiler conservatively assumes that /String/ and 
> /UTF8String/ have different encodings.

So I was wrong assuming from your message that DefaultSystemcodepage is 
the default encoding for the type "String" (and with that for TStrings 
and with that for TSringList).

Now I still don't know whether/how the default encoding for the type 
"String (which I still assume is defined when building  the compiler) is 
depending on the arch/OS the compiler is built for. (I only tested on 
Linux and here it rather obviously is UTF8. I assume on Windows it's 
UTF16 for Delphi compatibility).

-Michael
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