[Lazarus] Unicode text difference between source editor and other Edit controls on Windows

[Juha Manninen]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Mattias Gaertner <
nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:

> From where are you pasting?
> Via drag and drop or via clipboard?
> SynEdit uses a different font than TFilenameEdit and treats some
> characters special.
>

Hi ik, cobines, Sven, Mattias and DoDi

I copied it through clipboard. The original cyrillic string came from the
related issue:

19483: Lazarus can't save to a directory which has unicode characters in
its name
  http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19483

I copied the cyrillic part and created a file: C:\SW\Лейбл1.txt
I gave the hardcoded name to CopyFile function call and it failed.
Then I created a test app with FileNameEdit, run it, selected the same file
name and it worked.
No, there is no {$codepage ..} directive.

Could someone please test if it can be reproduced?
It may be somehow caused by my locale, who knows.

The case happens on Windows and the text looks correct in editor, although
CopyFile fails.
There was another case on Linux where the exact same text, read from the
same file, looked very different in Lazarus source editor than it looked
anywhere else. I found the forum thread:

 http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,15137.msg81342.html#msg81342

It was also cyrillic text and Lazarus showed it wrong. It was confirmed by
one person, ludob.
Could someone explain what happened there? It can't be my system's default
encoding because it showed correctly in other editors.

The char encoding stuff is so messy I still don't understand it well.
I will not work on it more now because I am busy with both a day-job and
school.
Besides, I have a course about Haskell language. I think it should be
renamed to Brainfuck language.
Unfortunately there already is a language called Brainfuck. It must be
renamed to something else.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck


Regards,
Juha
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