[Lazarus] wiki page "Better_Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus"

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:53:49 +0200
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 04/13/2016 11:08 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
> >
> > The code pages that are relevant here are only single byte code pages 
> > (e.g. CP1252) or UTF-8, *never* UTF-16 as a AnsiString can not store 
> > UTF-16 data.
> >
> 
> StringCodePage(s) with an unqualified String return 0 (which is 
> "CP_ACP", and seemingly means "Default").

It means DefaultSystemCodePage.

> But how to determine what encoding this default is, if (as we found) it 
> can't be DefaultSystemCodePage and can be UTF16,

Why do you think that?

> which is dynamic, while 
> the default for unqualified strings is static and *never* UTF-16 ?


Mattias