New encodings in editor?

[A.M. Hoornweg 144]

Hello World,

 

I see that the Delphi IDE now supports a whole slew of encodings including binary, is that new?  I stumbled upon this completely by accident.  And what's binary supposed to mean? 

 

 

[Uwe Raabe 2057]

Binary shows the file content as hex values and you can even edit it. Dropping f.i. a dcu file into the editor makes it pretty clear.

[A.M. Hoornweg 144]

On 3/28/2022 at 10:07 AM, Uwe Raabe said:

Binary shows the file content as hex values and you can even edit it. Dropping f.i. a dcu file into the editor makes it pretty clear.

 

Oh, so it just switches the "display mode" of the editor, it does not save the units themselves in the format indicated ?

[Uwe Raabe 2057]

43 minutes ago, A.M. Hoornweg said:

Oh, so it just switches the "display mode" of the editor, it does not save the units themselves in the format indicated ?

Well, it does. Binary is just - binary, whatever encoding was inside that binary is preserved.

 

All text formats are stored in the encoding you select.