[Lazarus] TProcess, UTF8, Windows

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
> Mattias Gaertner schrieb:
>> Maybe the other process's output is not in console codepage.
>> Try
>> Memo1.Lines.Append(<text or variable>)
>> or
>> Memo1.Lines.Append(SysToUTF8(<text or variable>)).
>>   
> I am always astonished that we have come so far already!
> Today programmers have to guess about coding of strings,
> they cannot find out in documentation or by identifier name.
> Only trial and error (the latter mostly when the program
> is in production use) can be used. That's what I call C style
> and is not what Niklaus Wirth had in mind.
> 
> IMO it must be possible to predict the encoding of strings
> when writing the code (without running the program).

The Delphi Unicode solution: set the proper encoding in TFileStream (? 
or TStringList), then the file is converted into UTF-16 on read, and 
back again when written to disk. Then the coder has to deal only with 
UnicodeStrings, and with AnsiStrings of codepage CP_ACP (system default) 
if ever required.

DoDi