[fpc-pascal] Does Free Vision support utf8 on unix?

Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado iam at juanfra.info
Tue Aug 9 15:32:53 CEST 2016


On 09/08/16 10:06, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 2016-08-08 19:54, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
>>> Is this bug known or should I report it in the bug tracker?
>>
>> I don't know if it supports full Unicode (I doubt), but it does support
>> some extended characters.
>
> I think it only supports what is in code page 437, because that's the
> code page that was used under DOS for Turbo Vision (and it's a
> compatibility package). Since Free Vision nor the video unit doesn't
> have nor never had any support for code page translation, you would have
> to ensure that all strings you pass it are in that encoding.

Thanks for the help!. Using this script 
https://gist.github.com/inky/471524 against the code, the problem is "gone".




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