On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 2013-12-28 11:20, schrieb Marcos Douglas: > >>> file API for example must be implemented in the frameworks. >> I think this is an option even in FPC and Lazarus, ie, I see people, >> on the future, creating your own "RTL" because FPC and Lazarus do not >> agree about Unicode. :-) > > Yes, I already started building my own file management routines > mainly because I was never sure about the string encoding/type > when using the RTL functions.
Maybe a open source project would be a good idea. ;-) > The current mismanagement regarding strings is a real pain. YES. > Even when looking into documentation there is no information about > which string encoding the routines use/need. > For example, not a single word about string encoding here: > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/findfirst.html > How can this documentation be used for programming? > The most effective way to find out seems by trial-and-error. The FPC 2.6.2 do not has Unicode support yet. I think this is the motive. > Not very inviting for programmers. I agree. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus