Jonas Maebe schreef:
On 11 Nov 2008, at 15:26, Vincent Snijders wrote:
Jonas Maebe schreef:
It seems much more advisable to me to save the file with an UTF-8
BOM, or even better to add {$encoding utf-8} (and/or to pass -Fcutf-8
to the compiler) and then just use
Edit1.Caption := UTF8Encode('hallo äöü');
As an extra bonus of not adding the UTF-8 BOM, you don't have to use
conversions to assign the UTF8 string in the source, translated by the
compiler to a UTF16 string, to an UTF8 encoded ansistring. It saves a
conversion at compile time and a conversion at run time.
And breaks all widestring usage.
Breaking *all* widestring usage is maybe a little exagerated, but it gets more
complicated, certainly. All widestring usages have to use UTF8Decode. Fortunately,
in Lazarus code widestrings are not used that often, I think. At least less often
than UTF-8 encoded strings in ansistrings.
Vincent
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