[Lazarus] TProcess, UTF8, Windows

[waldo kitty]

On 4/13/2012 11:32, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> 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 like writing in every function that string means
> longstring (aka ansistring), that the routine is not using a
> shortstring ... well, this is obvious.

actually, no it is not obvious... i still get bitten by this and i've been 
trying to get proficient with FPC/Lazarus for a year or more :? :(