[fpc-pascal] TIniFile.WriteString gives file with BOM, bad

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Jan 11 00:19:52 CET 2020



On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, AlexeyT via fpc-pascal wrote:

>         ini_lexmap:= TIniFile.Create(fn_lexmap_final);
>         try
>           ini_lexmap.WriteString('ref', IntToStr(i_sub), s_lexer);
>         finally
>           FreeAndNil(ini_lexmap);
>         end;
>
> with FPC trunk it converts .ini file to UTF8 BOM! Bad, because then my 
> code reads this .ini file and it cannot find its 1st section: 
> BOMCHARS[ref] is not found, only [ref] is found in original file. So

I will disable the writing of BOM in TIniFile alltogether.

Michael.


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