Hi,

I cannot manage to print any Turkish characters in console. (Code Page ISO-8859-9), I use Windows XP Turkish, I can type and display Turkish characters, but if my FP program's output displays these kind of text, only spaces or "?" appear instead of intended characters. I use widestrings to represent these chars. There is something I don't do right I am sure, but what is it? Thanks in advance. Anil

This is one of the issues that 2.0.4 should at least improve upon. See the 2.0.4 versions on the FTP site.

Hello,

i cast a source - it does not solves this kind of problems. I guess you prepared program using FP IDE. It uses OEM CP (CP857 for Turkish) for source encoding. Compiler misencodes these strings because i guess it uses RTL widestring manager whitch assumes source encoded in ACP (Windows 1254 for turkish).

Solution: Widestrings and FP IDE are not compatible. 1) use strings instead of widestrings 2) use unicode (UTF-8) enabled editor instead of FP.

For developers:
Do not you consider write(widestring) implementation without conversion into ansistring better? For example: writting into console may be implemented using WriteConsole(W) instead of WriteFile.

2) use unicode (UTF-8) enabled editor instead of FP.

Any windows editor will fit too.