[Lazarus] DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport

[Vincent Snijders]

Bernd Mueller schreef:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use Lazarus without Unicode support on Windows, as it 
> was possible up to version 0.9.24. I took a recent 0.9.27 snapshot and 
> compiled it with -dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport. My "old" projects seem 
> work well, but the editor does not show the german umlauts correct. I 
> changed File Settings.../Encodings but this did not help.
> 
> For sure, I belong to a minority which has no need for Unicode. For me, 
> it would be great to have Unicode disabled in Lazarus. So what is the 
> intention behind "DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport" in theses days? If it 
> should work, I would make a bug report.

My response can be seen as an addition to Paul's.

As far as I am concerned, the dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport does not 
need to be removed. OTOH working with -dDisableWindowsUnicodeSupport has 
no priority for me. If the Lazarus community does the testing and 
supplies patches, I don't mind committing them (much like I said about 
the fixes_0_9_26 branch, no effort form me, but willing to support the 
efforts of others).

I am willing to accept bug reports, if it turns out that a regression 
was caused by on of my commits, i.e. it worked before with 
DisableWindowsUnicodeSupport, and after it didn't.

Having said that, I fear that some incompatibilities remain, because the 
LCL (not the win32 interface) insert conversion to UTF8 when using RTL 
functions in for example the TFileListBox.

Finding a solution for such issue is not a priority for me, but patches 
will be reviewed and accepted if ok.

Vincent