[Lazarus] Debugging fixed strings in UTF8 encoding

[Martin]

On 27/03/2013 04:08, Ernest V Miller wrote:
> Hello!
>
> As we know, Lazarus is UTF8 friendly. When I want to see a value of a
> string var in cyrillic, I should convert it to UTF8, else I only get
> "?????????" in Watches window.
> For this code
>
>   function TesterClass.quickTest : Boolean;
>      var
>        utf8, ansi : string;
>        stf : string[50];
>      begin
>         ansi := Utf8ToAnsi('Кукла');
>         utf8 := AnsiToUtf8(ansi);
>         <....>
>      end;
>
> I see value of utf8 in russian. And I am absolutely happy. But as soon as I
> want to use fixed strings, the only way for me to see my native language
> when debugging is to declare an additional string var as you can see below:
>

Currently the only way would be to allow the user to specify how to 
interpret a watch, that is the user would set in the watches properties, 
if he wants utf8 or whatever encoding.

You can add a feature request, but currently that would have very low 
priority. (or "patches welcome")