[Lazarus] Wiki page "Unicode Support in Lazarus" improved

Juha Manninen juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Sat May 13 19:35:58 CEST 2017


On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Sven Barth via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> Warning: the compiler does *not* consider the file as UTF-8 without a BOM or
> a set codepage!

Yes but that is a very misleading warning.
The whole thing works without a BOM better than with it because of the
"double cheat". See "String Literals" section for details.
It is counter-intuitive and most people can just ignore it.

With BOM it did not work for codepoints beyond BMP but that was fixed
and backported to FPC 3.0.3, right?

Juha


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