Op Thu, 20 Nov 2008, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:
All that crap just to load a simple text file that contains unicode
content!!! :-( And the other problem is that the hack above assumes
the files content is UTF-8 encoded. If the content is UTF-16 encoded,
you need yet another hack. :-(
As far as I know the Unicode spec does mention a way of detecting the
encoding type (educated guess). As a second stage backup for GUI
toolkits, we can do the same as KDE or Qt has done in File Open/Save
dialogs. The user can specify an Encoding type from a combobox
overriding the auto-detect process.
So PLEASE lets finalize a Unicode strategy for Free Pascal!!! Like I
said before, I'm willing to help where I can - be that writing unit
tests or implementing some RTL functions. I don't know the deep
internals of FPC, but the RTL seems relatively easy enough to code.
These instructions are highly unproductive. Work on being able to compile
the RTL in either ansi/unicode depending on the platform has started.
Full Unicode support is for FPC 2.4. If you need it today, widestrings are
your best option.
If you want to help, we need to implement the Delphi 2009 encoding aware
string type, both runtime support as well as the compiler support.
Daniël
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