Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 05 Jan 2013, at 12:53, Paul Ishenin wrote:
ResourceStrings are stored as AnsiString type with 0 codepage (as I
remember). Delphi now stores ResourceStrings as UnicodeString type. I
think FPC will follow this in m_default_unicodestring modeswitch.
It would probably even be better to always do that. At least I don't
see a
downside, other than slightly larger binaries (and that's not an issue in
this case as far as I'm concerned; maintaining two separate
resourcestring
systems/handlers is just not worth the trouble).
But it means that for
Resourcestring
AString = 'Something';
Var
S : Ansistring;
begin
S:=AString;
end.
Always a conversion will happen.
I do not think this is a good idea given that currently, String =
Ansistring.
IMO resource strings are for display purposes, so that UTF-8/16 encoding
is expected by an OS API. AFAIR Win32 string resources are stored in
UTF-16, so that assignments to an AnsiString already require a
conversion. So IMO UTF-8 would be better, for now and in future.
DoDi
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