On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:25:00 +0100 Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>[...] > Probably, yes. However: > * since we're close to branching/releasing 2.8, I am not very much in > favour of still modifying core RTL routines like this for inclusion in > 2.8 (this also goes for the defaultformatsettings related patch you > posted to the bug tracker). I understand that this will make it harder > to use the current RTL with Lazarus, but that can be improved for > 2.8.2 yet. It's more important (to me) that what's there is stable, > than supporting everything but the kitchen sink and having annoying > bugs. I guessed so. No problem. I can add workarounds for these issues in the Lazarus code. > * make functionality codepag-aware should be done for all platforms at > the same time, otherwise it will become impossible to write > cross-platform programs that have similar behaviour everywhere (and > the list at http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support#RTL_changes > will become unreadable, just like the documentation). In general you > need a specific implementation for Windows and for Unix, and for all > other platforms (which don't have codepage support yet) it's a > mechanical change that is more or less identical. See the commits to > the cpstrrtl branch for examples. Ok. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
