On 18 Aug 2012, at 19:53, Marco van de Voort wrote: > It turns out that rawbytestring is only such for 1-byte types, and anything > else gets converted to the default ascii (1-byte) encoding, which is > Windows-1252, resulting in lossy conversions.
Indeed, that was also mentioned afterwards in the previous discussions on this topic (see e.g. http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2011-September/026377.html ) > FPC 2.7.1 is fully compatible. This makes simply changing general RTL > routines that take strings to rawbytestring difficult? Or am I missing > something? No, you indeed need separate overloads with rawbytestring and unicodestring (and possibly widestring, although I don't think that's necessary; even Delphi doesn't do that, afaik). Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
