[Lazarus] cwstring in arm-linux

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/21/2011 11:48 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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>> What if a file on the user computer has 4byte [visible] character as 
>> 8th character and you, for example want to get 8 character file name? 
>> In this case you split that 4 byte character and have garbage.
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For me (and for Linux) a file name does not at all consist of visible 
characters but is just a sequence of bytes. (AFAIK, with Ext3 any byte 
is allowed but Zero and "/").

How this byte array is presented on a screen, printed out or obtained 
from a keyboard is jut up to the program that communicates with the 
user. Thus it _might_ handle the byte string as if it would be UTF-8 
(unless it does not match the appropriate rules), as locale based ANSI 
or whatever.

For the presentation it of course needs to adhere to the API definition 
of the WidgetSet used. But this in fact does not have any relation to 
how the file system works and this what the meaning of the file name 
really is.

-Michael