LCL and Unicode
lazarus / 7-LCL

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Anonymous · 2005-11-29 03:08

What are the goals of the LCL in regard to Unicode? Does it aim to be
a Unicode capable component suite like the TNT controls across all
platforms?

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Marc · 2005-11-29 10:59

Unicode is supported by means of UTF8. For now on widgetset which
support it. On linux, if you have set your LANG to something .utf8,
all controls use utf8 as encoding.
So unlike Delhpi there is no separate widgetset needed

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Anonymous · 2006-01-06 11:18

UTF-8 sounds great, but TNT goes beyond visual components... what
about ExtractFilePath etc.? FindFirst/FindNext results? Are they
already UTF-8 strings?

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Anonymous · 2006-03-28 12:04

no, it cannot be Unicode if u do not rewrite its interface

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felipemdc · 2006-03-28 19:41

> no, it cannot be Unicode if u do not rewrite its interface

I think that everything on the Free Pascal Run-time library works for
UTF-8.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to write utf-8 software with
Lazarus, because they use the Run-time library a for string
operations, and I'm pretty sure that utf-8 software can be written
with Lazarus.