[Lazarus] TProcess, UTF8, Windows

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Jürgen Hestermann
> <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
>> But if you use a function from a (Free Pascal or Lazarus) library it is not
>> clear which kind of encoding this function expects. As I already mentioned,
>> for example CopyFile (from LCL) and FindFirst (from SysUtils) have no hint
>> in their documentation on what encoding is expected. I know, somewhere it
>> says that library x has enconding y but why wasn't this information written
>> to the documentation for the indiviudal functions?
> 
> It would be a huge duplication of documentation to write in every
> single Lazarus function that uses string that it expects UTF-8.

It would be much easier to use an TFileName string type instead, for 
self-documenting declarations.

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