In my struggles with Unicode I've read the LCL Unicode support wiki page:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support#Widestrings_and_AnsistringsQuestions:
1. Widestrings and Ansistrings section: nowhere does it say what a widestring is, but it implies a UTF16 encoded Unicode string. Is that correct? If so, I'll add it to that section.
Update: I suppose Widestring is managed by the widestring manager on each platform, so it depends. On Windows, it's UTF16?
2. FPC is not Unicode aware section: the FCL and RTL are note unicode aware according to the wiki. But obviously the string type IS unicode aware (and, based on 1, also the Widestring type). Is that correct? Is a string always UTF8 encoded or does it depend on compiler switches - I can imagine that the shortstring compiler switch (forgot the name) leads to ANSI encoded strings...
3. Instructions for users section: "Usually the encoding is per-library (e.g. a dynamic library dll or a lazarus package)". Maybe a stupid question, but how can you tell whether a Lazarus component or package supports unicode? Go hunting through the source code for comments?
Thanks,
BigChimp
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