On 5 January 2013 13:39, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 13:06:42 +0000 > Frank Church <vfcli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >[...] > > It is obvious that Unicode is not a simple topic and among FPC/Lazarus > > developers/contributors,I suspect that few if any at all, have a detailed > > grasp of how it all hangs together in the current state of > implementation. > > It brings to mind the parable of the 12 blind men and the elephant. > > The FPC and Lazarus UTF details are not that difficult. The > complexity comes from adding Delphi *, third party libraries and > old FPC, Lazarus versions. > > > > I think a diagram or graph of Unicode rules and their current state of > > implementation in FPC/Lazarus would go a long way to helping both > > developers and end users in this area. It is a topic which comes up > > regularly and it doesn't show signs of ever going to be properly > resolved. > > For Lazarus: > - works with fpc 2.6.x and 2.7.1 > - LCL and most code expect ansistrings to hold UTF-8. > - pascal sources, lfm, po files are stored in UTF-8 without BOM. > Special care has to be taken, when using widestrings/unicodestring. > - there are UTF-8 functions and classes (most in package lazutils). > - the IDE supports many encodings > - all this is documented via wiki and fpdoc > - no support for UTF-16 has been started > > > >[...] > > Mattias > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > Glad to hear this. -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
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