[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

[luiz americo pereira camara]

I added {.$codepage utf8} and all strings output as "Joao".

Got confused. I did not to expect changes in the constant assigned to the
UnicodeString variable

Need to check what is the correct UTF8 output:  "JoA£o" or "Joao"

Luiz

2014-11-23 21:37 GMT-03:00 luiz americo pereira camara <luizmed at oi.com.br>:

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> 2014-11-20 13:21 GMT-03:00 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
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>> Please test and tell what you find out.
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> Without {$codepage utf8} directive String constants will get Code Page 0
> (CP_ACP) and not the 1200 (UTF16 - UnicodeString).
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> String variables assigned to those constants will also have Code Page = 0
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> This is because the constant string code page is evaluated at compile time
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> Not sure if there's a compiler command line param with same effect as
> {$codepage utf8}
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> The attached program show how data loss can occur
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> Luiz
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