On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: >> >> This is why many editors and mail programs have a menu option >> 'Encoding': because they also don't know, and they cannot know >> without external means, what the encoding is. > > Let's add that to TMemo. ;)
The point is that you will probably have a File Open dialog that gives the filename to TMemo.LoadFromFile. The the file dialog could collect the filename and optional encoding to pass on to LoadFromFile. Even if TStringList has the optional encoding parameter, prior source code should still work as-is without the encoding parameter. No code would be broken. I agree with Marco that auto detecting encodings is probably not a good idea in the RTL, but at least enable the option of a encoding parameter in TStringList, which could help things along. As in the case of the bug report. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
