[Lazarus] FontCanUTF8(Font: HFont)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:22:31 +0100
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
> > Reading the implementation doesn't help much, as can be seen with your
> > example:
> >
> > What does *FontIsDoubleByteCharsFont* mean? This *might* mean UTF-16, but
> > then the name *FontCanUTF8* already is wrong.

AFAIR it means UCS2. The name DoubleByte is somewhat misleading.

 
> It doesn't matter what it does, the important thing is seeing that it
> does something in LCL-Gtk1 and does nothing useful in all other
> widgetsets. Gtk1 is obsolete, so the routine currently does nothing
> useful.
> 
> > IMO a usable software should *not* require the user to guess
> 
> >From what I see, users should not use this routine. As mentioned in my
> previous e-mail it looks a legacy from the past when Lazarus still
> used ansi-encoded strings in some widgetsets.

It's legacy. It has nothing to do with ansi-encoded. gtk1 had some fonts
that only supported 8bit.

 
> It does not look useful nowadays, so I propose deprecating it. Anyone opposed?

No objection here.

Mattias