[Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 05.05.2017 11:06, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2017-05-05 07:43, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
>> As far as I know, you don't need any tricks to work with unicode
>> filenames or output in 3.0.2. Maybe with exception of TStrings and
>> TFileStream.
> Again, I didn't have time to follow FPC 3.x development much, and I was too
> confused with all the Unicode changes.
>
> With FPC 3.0.x, can you now load text files from disk using TStringList and
> specify the encoding of the file at load time?
>
> Something like:
>
>    sl.LoadFromFile('some_utf8_file.txt', CP_UTF8);
>    sl.LoadFromFile('some_utf16_file.txt', CP_UTF16);
>    sl.LoadFromFile('some_latin1_file.txt', CP_Latin1);

I don't know about 3.0.x but you can do it in trunk 3.1.1. I posted a 
patch for it (r34475). I also extended TEncoding to support AnsiString, 
which was the requirement for TStrings encoding support.

Ondrej