[Lazarus] Errors in Windows

Luiz Americo Pereira Camara luizmed at oi.com.br
Sat Dec 17 17:13:07 CET 2011


On 17/12/2011 13:53, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:45:03 -0200
> Luiz Americo Pereira Camara<luizmed at oi.com.br>  wrote:
>
>> On 17/12/2011 13:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:05:53 -0200
>>> Luiz Americo Pereira Camara<luizmed at oi.com.br>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 17/12/2011 12:18, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>>>>> Any ideas what could be the problems?
>>>> Probably you are using fpc 2.7.1
>>> The screenshot shows 2.4.2.
>>>
>>>> See  "Lazarus not starts on Windows" thread from October
>>>>
>>>> Try to remove call of UTF8ToSys in laz2_XMLRead.ReadXMLFile fpr fpc 2.7
>>> Does that mean TFileStream now works with UTF-8 in fpc 2.7.1?
>>> I doubt that.
>>>
>> It seems a different bug with similar symptoms
> IMO your workaround is dangerous. If removing the UTF8ToSys helps, then
> it means the passed filename is already in system encoding, which means
> somewhere a file name in the IDE is not UTF-8. The file name is
> probably used at various other places too.
> So, your workaround does not only is insufficient, it
> breaks all valid UTF-8 file names too.
>

You did not understand: i regret from my suggestion since the bug is 
otherwise.

Luiz





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