With Lazarus on Linux, I did some simple tests with UTF strings.
I found that the length of an "AnsiString(CP_UTF16)" is given in terms
of bytes and not of Words. Is this like it should ?
I found that pchar(s8) with an UTF-8 string works as expected, giving a
pointer to the UTF-8 encoded byte array.
Anyway: is it obvious, that the encoding of pchar is UTF-8 ? Is this
portable ?
p16 = pchar(s16) with an UTF-16 gives a pointer to the first byte of the
word array, so (with ASCII text), the second byte is zero, thus a
C-String length 1. Is this like it should ?
Of course re-assigning p16 to an UTF-16 string does not reproduce the
original string.
What encoding is to be supposed for a pchar ?
The Debugger does not show UTF-16-Strings correctly (it shows the same
result as pchar() ). Is this just a Lazarus problem, or does FPC need to
provide additional support for this ?
-Michael
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