[fpc-pascal] String literals and code page of .pas source file

[Sven Barth]

Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Sa., 12. Sep. 2020, 17:47:

> > All the doubts, questions, and discussions prove that current system is
> > counter-intuitive and confusing.
>
> The issue in this thread is caused by a bug in the LCL: it blindly
> assumes that the dynamic code page of the caption string is always
> utf-8. That is simply wrong (unless you put the burden on the user to
> always assign an utf-8-encoded string to it, but _that_ is
> counter-intuitive and confusing).
>

But shouldn't the compiler insert a conversion if the string is declared as
CP_1250 and the destination is CP_ACP?

Regards,
Sven

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