[Lazarus] TStringList.LoadFromFile encoding parameter

[Michael Schnell]

On 07/11/2016 02:00 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
>
> 100% of end-user Windows LCL applications need Unicode. 

Can you explain why ?

For some 20 Years (before Delphi introduced Unicode) Pascal users were 
forced to use their locale ANSI instead of Unicode, and hence it was 
difficult to create programs that were useable in multiple regions. But 
AFAIR, the complaint about that fact have been rather limited.


> You can't simply force your customers to set the German codepage in 
> their OS settings.
1) not set "German codepage" but Lazarus using the "locale ANSI Code 
Page", as set in the OS (exactly as it had been before Lazarus moved to 
UTF-8 some years ago).

2 ) not force, but provide a setting if the user wants to use Unicode or 
not.

-Michael