Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Hello again,We are seeing more and more "hacks" being applied to projects trying to scramble around the missing FPC feature - no built-in Unicode supporting. A simple example in Lazarus.... Loading a UTF-8 encoded file into a TMemo. Normally you would write code as follows (for ANSI text): Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile('someunicodefile.txt'); Unfortunately that doesn't work if the file contains unicode content, so the following "hack" is required which is quite nasty: ls := TStringList.Create; ls.LoadFromFile('someunicodefile.txt'); for i := 0 to ls.Count-1 do ls[i] := UTF8Encode(ls[i]); Memo.Lines.Assign(ls); ls.Free
> > I'm also pretty sure I am not the only one that is willing to help > with this feature - many developers require Unicode support. And this > is just going to become more urgent as time goes by. So lets finalize > a design and start implementation. Pretty please. ;-) > Ok, two questions for the example above: - how do you maintain backward compatibility? - how do you load a plain old ansi file? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
