[Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Apr 2 10:38:46 CEST 2016



On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Special wrote:

> How can I use names with German Umlauts and 'ß' in the Name Field of 
> TButton components? For instance, I try to set MyButton.Name to 
> "Schließenbutton" and get an error message "Komponentenname 
> Schließenbutton ist kein gültiger Bezeichner".
>
> This happens with Lazarus 1.6 and FPC 3.0.0 under Win 10 (64) and under 
> Raspian on a Pi3.
> We have many Delphi Programs with German Umlauts in component names and 
> would like to go to Lazarus with them.

You cannot at this moment.

Michael.


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