[Lazarus] TProcess, UTF8, Windows

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mattias Gaertner schrieb:

>>  > Feel free to add the encoding to those functions you think it is not
>>  > clear and send a patch.
>>
>> I would like to. But how do I get the information? 
> 
> It's open source. You are a programmer. You have an IDE.
> How do you think others are getting the information?

Information should be provided in a useful manner, not by pointing out 
ways how a *guru* might obtain it.

>> You see the vicious circle?
> 
> Yes, but I hope others will not follow your example.

You really hope so? :-(

I.e. you hope that others will give in before asking questions, which 
are required to improve the documentation? When they read in 
contributions (like yours) that they will never get substancial answers, 
and no real assistance by the core developers?

How much could have been changed in the documentation until now, when 
the contributing gurus had spent their time in improving it on every 
question, instead of defending their disgust of doing so themselves, 
over and over again?


>> Or do you mean I should find out the encoding by trial and error for 
>> each function
>> myself (bulding a test program around them) because this is the only way 
>> to get it?
>> Who wants to program with such a programming language where encoding for
>> function parameters is not documented?
>> It seems it's for the hard core developers only.

Ah, no answer on these questions?


>>  > A volunteer project like Lazarus requires the help of volunteers.
>>
>> Yes. If you send me a list of the expected/used string encoding for *all*
>> function parameters then I can add this information to the documentation
>> when I find out how to do that. 
> 
> lol

What a nice and encouraging attitude :-(

DoDi