Re: [Lazarus] Debugging the unicode RTL

2023-01-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Do., 12. Jan. 2023, 10:42: 1/ Should the compiler provide some symbol in - say - the system unit to deterine whether the RTL is compiled in unicode mode, or is another mechanism preferred to do

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging the unicode RTL

2023-01-12 Thread Sven Barth via lazarus
Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus schrieb am Do., 12. Jan. 2023, 10:42: > 1/ Should the compiler provide some symbol in - say - the system unit to > deterine > whether the RTL is compiled in unicode mode, or is another mechanism > preferred to do this ? > "Char" already is such a symbol that the

[Lazarus] Debugging the unicode RTL

2023-01-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
Hello, As written in other mails, I'm currently working on the Unicode RTL of FPC. Debugging programs using the unicode RTL is possible, but not comfortable: I have currently identified 2 problems in Lazarus which make debugging such programs difficult: - The IDE does now know the

Re: [Lazarus] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, Rolf Wetjen via lazarus wrote: Hi Michael, I'm interested in this but I expect that I'm not the expert you are looking for. Some time ago ( Lazarus 1.8 or even earlier) I made a directory sync program for my own use for Windows which is aware of Unicode names in the

Re: [Lazarus] Unicode RTL for FPC

2023-01-12 Thread Rolf Wetjen via lazarus
Hi Michael, I'm interested in this but I expect that I'm not the expert you are looking for. Some time ago ( Lazarus 1.8 or even earlier) I made a directory sync program for my own use for Windows which is aware of Unicode names in the file system. I tried to follow your instruction but I