[Lazarus] upper & lower case problem

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:32:27 +0300
Juha Manninen <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:48 AM, zeljko <zeljko at holobit.net> wrote:
> > On 04/20/2015 10:40 AM, FreeMan wrote:
> >> There is no resize problem, I wrote, encoding problem. I wrote answer to
> >> Juha's mail, why important.
> >> TLabel "ÖLDÜ" painting "OLDU"
> >> translate to english
> >> TLabel "DIED" painting "BORN"
> >> codepage has been big problem in this year :(
> >
> > Why translation ? AFAIR, you used (I've deleted original post), UpperCase,
> > or AnsiUpperCase, and IMO that's wrong. Have you tried with UTF8UpperCase
> > (or UpperCaseUTF8) from LazUTF8 ?
> 
> AnsiUpperCase should work when the "Better Unicode Support" is configured.
> All UTF8...() functions in LazUTF8 are set as backends for RTL's
> Ansi...() functions.
> 
> Yes, I can imagine such translation errors can cause problems. I think
> this one is a bug in UTF8UpperCase (called by AnsiUpperCase).
> I always wondered how it can work when there are many decomposed
> characters and language dependent differences.

Decomposed characters are helping. Language dependency is a problem.
Turkish is the prominent example.
At the moment the default is to not use the "LANG".
This needs to be changed.

> Please report with a minimal test application.

+1

Mattias