[fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On 2021-03-08 15:49, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>> Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You didn't configure your environment to deal correctly with Unicode.
>>> 
>>> Wow ! what a sentence !
>>> 
>>> That sounds like "you didn't configure your car correctly to also take 
>>> corners to the right."
>> 
>> A car that does not turn is unusable.
>> 
>> Programs that don't need unicode conversions exist and are perfectly 
>> usable.
>> 
>> In that sense, unicode conversion support is something optional and so
>> we require you to enable it explicitly, since enabling it has some
>> drawbacks:
>> - Links to C libs if you use cwstring
>> - Increases your binary substantually if you use fpwidestring and
>> include all needed characters.
>
> The trouble is - when exactly should the supposed warning be issued? At 
> compile time if there are Unicodestring variables and/or constants 
> involved, but the Widestring manager is not included in the final binary

Provided you can detect to begin with that a "real" widestring manager 
is included in the final binary...

Michael.