[Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 02/04/2016 10:14, Special ha scritto:
> 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".

Using characters above ascii 127 in a multiplatform environment such as 
Lazarus and FPC means looking for troubles. Such is not the case for 
Delphi which is limited to the Windows platform (and manages to make a 
mess with character encoding even there, BTW).

Any simple text editor can convert your "Schließenbutton" to 
"Schliessenbutton" (and your "kein gültiger" into "kein gueltiger", if 
you like), which are perfectly readable by any German reader and do not 
cause any subsequent trouble.

As a side note, to play music you need to learn a number of Italian 
words, because of the prevalence of Italian composers and performers in 
the past centuries.
To write computer programs you need to manage some basic English for 
pretty much the same reasons.

Just my 2 cents.

Giuliano