[fpc-pascal] Executing external processes and codepages

[Jonas Maebe]

marcov wrote on Tue, 10 May 2016:

> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>> > 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
>
> It assumes for windows utf16, and for Unix filesystem encoding (e.g.
> unix.pp:254).
>
> If you have more info, please share.

The filesystem encoding is fine to find the binary on Unix, but the  
parameters you specify to that binary will be interpreted by that same  
binary once it's running. It will not interpret those parameters  
according to the filesystem encoding, but according to whatever is  
determined to be the DefaultSystemCodePage *by that executed binary*.


Jonas