Lazarus example: add comment to string encoding conversion methods

aspettl · Oct 1, 2016 · d06106e · d06106e
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diff --git a/Example_Lazarus/exampleunit.pas b/Example_Lazarus/exampleunit.pas
@@ -179,11 +179,19 @@ implementation
 
 function GUIStringToDefaultString(const s: UTF8String): String;
 begin
+  // with FPC 2.6, the strings in the GUI are UTF-8 and they have to be
+  // converted to the standard ANSI strings
+  // (with FPC 3.0 and UTF-8 mode / codepage-aware strings, this is not
+  //  necessary anymore)
   Result := Utf8ToAnsi(s);
 end;
 
 function DefaultStringToGUIString(const s: String): UTF8String;
 begin
+  // with FPC 2.6, the strings in the GUI are UTF-8 and they have to be
+  // converted to the standard ANSI strings
+  // (with FPC 3.0 and UTF-8 mode / codepage-aware strings, this is not
+  //  necessary anymore)
   Result := AnsiToUtf8(s);
 end;