On 09/09/2020 17:37, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote: > On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:25:09 +0200 > Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> On 2020-09-09 13:51, LacaK via fpc-pascal wrote: >> [...] >> A simple question - is TLabel.Caption declared as Utf8String (I don't >> use Lazarus)? _Then_ it should work without any issues and/or special >> attention from users. > > Declaring as UTF8String would insert implicit conversion code for all > String (CP_ACP), so basically everywhere.
If the dynamic code page of the assigned string was already CP_UTF8 (or CP_ACP with DefaultSystemCodePage = CP_UTF8), no actual conversion will happen though. Is the overhead of that extra bit of code really noticeable? And is it worth the confusion and inconvenience? Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
