[Lazarus] Mac OS X Carbon: Non-standard characters (umlaute) shown as question marks ?

[fred f]

I have forgotten to mention, that this started to happen with latest
Lazarus/FPC svn versions.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:33 AM, fred f <ffred69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My project is encoded in UTF-8 and when I build up some text which
> contains non-standard ASCII characters like "üäößáťčš" then e.g.
> TLabel shows the umlaute as question mark.
> The strange is, that when I assign some text without concatenation as:
>
> Label12.Caption := 'My umlaute text üöäßčľíá';
>
> it works, but then I need to build up a text based on some function +
> static text as:
>
> Label12.Caption := 'My umlaute ' + GetTextFunction + 't üöäßčľíá';
>
> it doesn't work!
>
> Of course my source code is encoded in UTF-8 and the used functions
> return "string" and the compiler option doesn't have checked the
> option "-Sh" - use ansi strings.
>
> Second strange thing is, that it happens on Mac OS X Carbon. When
> using GTK2 no problem is shown from the same sources.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ff.
>