[fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Mar 8 23:23:55 CET 2021



On Mon, 8 Mar 2021, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Obviously knowing the presence/absence of a widestring manager allows to 
> refine warnings.

It does not.

The compiler has no way to know if the widestring manager actually does a
complete or even a good job. Maybe it just does logging and calls the
previously registered widestringmanager. 
Maybe it replaces all with a single chinese character for testing purposes, 
or replaces everything with a 0.

Michael.


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