[Lazarus] TStringList.LoadFromFile encoding parameter

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 08.07.2016 12:22, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Michael Schnell wrote:
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>> AFAIK, Delphi XE features a second parameter "encoding" with 
>> TStringList.LoadFromFile.
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>> Lazarus / fpc misses same.
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>> Bug or Feature ?
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> Known missing feature, there exists a bug for it.
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> Main problem is that this necessitates a unicode stringlist, and by
> extension a unicode RTL. We're working on it.

Why do you need a unicode stringlist? I wrote a class helper for myself 
that does it.

Ondrej