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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus wrote:

> On 05.05.2017 11:17, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 May 2017, 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);
>>
>> Not yet. These are the exceptions I was talking about.
>
> Current trunk 3.1.1 can do that since r34475 - you applied it :) I don't 
> know if you ported it back to 3.0.x, though.

As far as I know, it is not backported, but Marco would need to confirm it.

Michael.