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In a message on Friday 03-24-16 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Good morning Mark,

 ml>> winwhatever and OS/2... granted, it is ascii console code but it is
 ml>> still cross-platform :)

 HG> It doesn't matter, because programming does not use umlaut or other
 HG> unusual characters for the code.

ml> you might be surprised... i've seen code with variables that do use
ml> such characters...

Yes the code can and does use the hex strings that in the real world,
show up as ascii characters.

ml> then there's the contents of string lists and the like... especially
ml> when writing apps that can use different languages for their output..

That is a different story. Of course the text strings shown to the user
do use the necessary characters.

ml> delphi went one way and FPC/Lazarus went another... delphi, being
ml> stuck with winwhatever, uses UTF-16 whereas everyone else uses
ml> UTF-8... automatic ""codepage"" conversions are done in some places
ml> and not in others... using the wrong routine can really farkle the
ml> data in the variables...

I haven't dived into the UTF war, I'm fully content with PC8 and Latin-1
character sets and codes, and conversions between them.


Have a good day,

Holger

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