[fpc-pascal] The world is ending

[Jonas Maebe]

marcov wrote on Tue, 10 May 2016:

> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>> As to the original question: most RTL routines don't care about what
>> the default code page is of ansistrings. Of the ones that do, most
>> have been adapted to deal with changing the default ansistring code
>> page (http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support#RTL_changes ).
>> There is one notable set of exceptions that is not adapted in 3.0 (and
>> incompletely in current trunk): SysUtils.ExecuteProcess() and related
>> the TProcess() class.
>
> ExecuteProcess is in trunk since late march.
>
> It is fairly self contained and could be merged to 3.0.2 technically.

I mentioned that it is in trunk, but it's incomplete: it does not  
translate the command line arguments to the code page of the  
environment in which the child is started, which means that the child  
may wrongly interpret these parameters. And it's definitely not  
something for 3.0.2 as far as I'm concerned, even with such fixes.


Jonas