Encoding problem.

[seryal]

Problem for Linux and Windows.
If you set the Cyrillic text in design mode, then it is displayed incorrectly.
Image

If Caption set in Runtime mode, it's ok.

procedure TWForm1.WButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  WLabel1.Caption:= 'HELLO = ПРИВЕТ';
end;

PS: Another languages too have problem.
HELLO = ПРИВЕТ = 你好

[seryal]

Read string from lfm file Classes.pas Line: 6593

function TBinaryObjectReader.ReadString(StringType: TValueType): String;
var
  i: Integer;
  C : Char;

begin
  Result:='';
  if StringType<>vaString then
    Raise EFilerError.Create('Invalid string type passed to ReadString');
  i:=ReadDWord;
  SetLength(Result, i);
  for I:=1 to Length(Result) do
    begin
    FStream.ReadbufferData(C); // <--- read symbol
    Result[i]:=C; // <-- assigned incorrect symbol
    end;
end;       

[seryal]

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=38898

Michael Van Canneyt  The strings are expected to be in UTF16 format. If they are not, then that is the problem.

But Lazarus create *.lfm files in UTF8 format

[JanuszChmiel]

Unfortunately, setting The encoding to UTF16 LE or to UTF16 B causes Lazarus that it refuse to load .lfm form which have been stored by using this encoding type. I will try to use Akelpad and I will try to find UTF16 without LE or B letters in its encoding type name, but if it will not support it, we will have to only dream about easy drag and drop GUI creation tool for international characters.