Format with thousands separator

[tintinux]

Hi otoien

Since you have a FPC 3.0, can you read and try the second solution proposed by Bart Broesma (use the "Set Utf-8 in RTL" option in Project Options) in my bug report ?  I do not  understand why, but may be he will explain...

By the way, I don't think a string is needed in ThousandSeparator, a double-byte char would do the job (with a "thin space" too).

Regards

[otoien]

Of course I have "Set Utf-8 in RTL" active through the compiler directive, that is the reason why I use the fixes branch with fpc 3.01 right now. FormatSettings.ThousandSeparator type is char that only takes one byte, so it is impossible to set it to a multi-byte value required for the UTF-8 version of thin space. I am not aware of any other type than string that can hold a multibyte-byte UTF-8 code point?  [There is widechar, but I do not think it is intended for UTF-8, as it is fixed at two bytes; UTF8 may require more than 2 bytes].

[tintinux]

Hi

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support#PWideChar.2FPUnicodeChar_and_WideChar.2FUnicodeChar

We need the {$mode delphiunicode} directive, to put UTF8 or other multibyte characters in a type Char, and it is not required AFAIK for strings.

Maybe the directive could solve the issue ?  I can't try before a few days, let us know if you did.

Yes, your suggestion to declare Thousand separator use a string may work too, without requesting the directive, but I don't know if this will be changed in FPC.

Regards