[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Dec 26 11:06:17 CET 2013


Craig Peterson schrieb:
> On Dec 25, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>> I wonder what exact "support" he means.
> 
> Wonder no more:
> 1) "string" uses a Unicode encoding
> 2) AnsiString/UTF8String casts perform appropriate conversions
> 3) File APIs support Unicode filenames
> 4) Windows headers use W version by default.
> 5) LCL and RTL agree on string encoding
> 6) In a stable Lazarus and FPC release

Thanks for this list :-)

Everything except (2) should have been available already, that's why I 
was wondering. Automatic conversions (2) were hard to implement without 
stored string Encoding, should come soon.

DoDi





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