On Saturday 05 January 2013 12:57:44 Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 05 Jan 2013, at 12:53, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > So compiled with -Fcutf8 > > " > > unicodestringvar:= 'Best'#228'tigung'; > > " > > produces a different result on fixes_2_6 and trunk? I assume in trunk > > there will be a compile error? > > No. In both cases it results in a widestring with this content: > > .short 66,101,115,116,228,116,105,103,117,110,103,0 > > I guess invalid utf-8 values are just copied through by the compiler. As > mentioned: absolutely nothing whatsoever changed in how character sequences > are interpreted by the compiler in 2.7.x. The explanation you quoted above > (and which I deleted) applies to both 2.6.x and 2.7.x. I really don't know > how I can say this in another way, and repeating it clearly doesn't help. > > I think it's best if you compile trunk for yourself and test as many > scenarios as you can, because I feel I cannot add anything further to the > discussion, and I'm not interested in playing compile bot. > Then it was a misunderstanding again because I read " Alternatively, in both cases you can instead define a unicodestring/widestring constant instead of an ansistring/shortstring constant by embedding widechar constants in the character sequence. Such widechar constants are of the form #<number> with <number> a valid Pascal representation of an integer constant between 255 and 65535. " and " Whether or not they contain character literals whose value is >#127 in the source code's code page, or explicit "#xx", "#xxx" etc expressions has no influence, nothing changed in the compiler in that account. " and " I have no idea how anything I wrote suggests that it wouldn't. As mentioned, the only difference is that string constants containing characters >#127 are no longer always converted to unicodestring constants at compile time. " --> >#255 <> >#127 and the question arose how can one define "widechar constants" for strings without a character value >255.
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