Am 13.04.2016 10:19 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschn...@lumino.de>: > > BTW. according to the said wiki page (at the end of the page) I am wrong assuming that DefaultSystemCodePage is a constant introduced by the compiler. > > Now I still don't know whether/how the default encoding for the type "String (which is different from DefaultSystemCodePage according to the wiki) is depending on the arch/OS the compiler is built for. (I only tested on Linux and here it rather obviously is UTF8. I assume on Windows it's UTF16 for Delphi compatibility). >
The code pages that are relevant here are only single byte code pages (e.g. CP1252) or UTF-8, *never* UTF-16 as a AnsiString can not store UTF-16 data. And the DefaultSystemCodePage is determined upon startup from the system. Regards, Sven
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