[Lazarus] FPC 2.7.1 and console output

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

First I thank the Lazarus team for the fine 1.3 version, usable for 
development with FPC trunk (Unicode version). In detail the greyed-out 
branches in conditional compilation sections are very helpful when 
inspecting the RTL units :-)


On my first steps with the Unicode RTL I found a different behaviour, 
when a console program is compiled from an PAS file, and from an LPI/LPR 
project. [on WinXP, Ansi source files]

When compiled from an PAS file, the behaviour is identical to the direct 
compilation on the commandline, string output is readable.

When compiled from an LPR file (LPI project), the string output has 
unreadable UTF-8 encoding, even for UnicodeString. Did I miss some 
project setting, required for proper console output?

When I try {$codepage 1252}, I get an error during compilation ("file 
not open")? The "charset" unit, mentioned in help on $codepage, doesn't 
give any clues about allowed values. What's the correct value for 
Windows default (western)? Or how else can I establish a global default 
sourcecode codepage?

DoDi