[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
<juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 2013-12-28 11:20, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>
>>> file API for example must be implemented in the frameworks.
>> I think this is an option even in FPC and Lazarus, ie, I see people,
>> on the future, creating your own "RTL" because FPC and Lazarus do not
>> agree about Unicode.  :-)
>
> Yes, I already started building my own file management routines
> mainly because I was never sure about the string encoding/type
> when using the RTL functions.

Maybe a open source project would be a good idea. ;-)

> The current mismanagement regarding strings is a real pain.

YES.

> Even when looking into documentation there is no information about
> which string encoding the routines use/need.
> For example, not a single word about string encoding here:
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/findfirst.html
> How can this documentation be used for programming?
> The most effective way to find out seems by trial-and-error.

The FPC 2.6.2 do not has Unicode support yet. I think this is the motive.

> Not very inviting for programmers.

I agree.

Marcos Douglas