Re: Resource changes in Tortoise.pot

On 08.12.2009 12:21, Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Stefan wrote,
>
> because I wrote:
>>> /flame mode on
>>> Delphi doesn't require this junk :)
>>> /flame mode off
>
> Yay, flame war!!!
>
>> Sure - if you don't know about UNICODE, you don't have to worry about
>> such things :)
>> (Delphi has UNICODE support only since this year, and I guess you're
>> not using the latest version yet).
>
> I'm using Delphi 7 with Unicode for several (six?) years now. OK, the
> GUI controls are a Unicode enabled package derived from the standard
> controls. But I can ensure you that I don't have to distinguish the
> unicodeness of parameters that I pass to a (Wide)format function.
>
> Format("%s", [ansistring]) -> fine
> Format("%s", [widestring]) -> junk
> WideFormat("%s", [ansistring]) -> fine
> WideFormat("%s", [widestring]) -> fine
>
> Look mum, no capital "%s" :)

Look mum, garbage when using "Format" with a wide string :)

btw: I could easily write a format function that wouldn't need those
capital S specifiers. But then it wouldn't be compatible with C anymore,
only with C++. So now you know why we have the capital S in those
functions :)

Stefan

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