IDE Window: Change Encoding Dialog

You can get to this dialog via: Tools / Convert encodings of project/packages ...

Overview

This dialog helps to convert whole projects or packages to UTF-8. Choose the project or package. Then click on Update preview to see what will happen. Setup options until content. Then click Convert to change the files.

Convert project or package

Select here the project or package and the new encoding.

File filter

Files in ASCII or UTF-8 encoding

Check this to convert files formerly encoded in ASCII or UTF-8.

Files not in ASCII or UTF-8 encoding

Check this to convert files formerly not encoded in ASCII or UTF-8. For example encoded in windows system encoding.

Filter

Set the file mask.

About Regular Expressions see IDE regular expressions

Preview

This list is filled when pressing the Update preview button.

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From the Free Pascal wiki, page "IDE Window: Change Encoding Dialog", as it stood on 2015-07-01 after a change by FTurtle, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.