Does Free Vision support utf8 on unix? This example builds fine on Linux but the second messagebox shows weird symbols:

program TestFV;
uses App, MsgBox;
type
          TMyAPP = object(TApplication)
          end;
var
          MyApp: TMyApp;
begin
          MyApp.Init;
          MessageBox('aeiou', nil, mfWarning or mfOKButton);
          MessageBox('áéíóú', nil, mfWarning or mfOKButton);
          MyApp.Run;
          MyApp.Done;
end.

Is this bug known or should I report it in the bug tracker?

Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote

Does Free Vision support utf8 on unix? This example builds fine on Linux but the second messagebox shows weird symbols:

[sip]

Is this bug known or should I report it in the bug tracker?

It is known: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=21373

See also the comment there why it would be very hard to fix.

Jonas

Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote

Is this bug known or should I report it in the bug tracker?

I don't know if it supports full Unicode (I doubt), but it does support some extended characters. For example: If I run the Text IDE (fp) and select Help -> About, I see a dialog where a name in the credits use some of those extended characters you listed. It displays perfectly under FreeBSD and Linux using Mate Terminal.

Regards,
Graeme

I think it only supports what is in code page 437, because that's the code page that was used under DOS for Turbo Vision (and it's a compatibility package). Since Free Vision nor the video unit doesn't have nor never had any support for code page translation, you would have to ensure that all strings you pass it are in that encoding.

Jonas

Jonas Maebe wrote

I think it only supports what is in code page 437, because that's the code page that was used under DOS for Turbo Vision

That makes sense - thanks for the explanation.

Regards,
Graeme

Thanks for the help!. Using this script
https://gist.github.com/inky/471524 against the code, the problem is "gone".