[Lazarus] file name encoding

[Marc Santhoff]

Hi,

hopefully this is not too far OT i dare to ask:

When reading directories and files using FindFirst()/FindNext() using
system encoding my program hangs on german 'ß' (eszett).

I'm using fpc 2.6.2 and lazarus 1.2.0, so string encoding should
normally be the same as the system encoding. On the console nothing is
wrong, but in an xterm it fails.

The encoding difference between consol and xterm is only:

XTERM_LOCALE=de_DE.ISO8859-15

and the termcap var belonging to it.

OS is FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE amd64

Complete locale settings:

console:
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO8859-1

xterm:
TERMCAP=xterm|X11 terminal emulator:...
XTERM_LOCALE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15

What is the exact problem here and how can it be solved?

-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>