> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > I don't see what is difficult about Florians proposition. > On the contrary, it is the simplest possible solution, > and quite elegant in my eyes.
To be honest, I flabbergasted that the two of you agreed on such a runtime construct. It goes IMHO against Pascal principles. > For the LCL/fpGUI/MSEGui programmers, nothing changes, > you can even throw away your own conversion routines. > You need only a single call just prior to passing a string > to the OS/GUI system: ForceEncoding(). No ifdefs needed, > all is transparant. That's one of the problems. Having to check and insert code for a Tiburon solution. (that simply will expect UTF-16). The least it should do is have a way to flag a routine (e.g. by directive/ Tiburon mode) to only accept UTF16 and insert that call itself. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
