Op vrijdag 12-09-2008 om 13:22 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef JoshyFun: > A> Thanks for pointing me to the Lazarus thread about this and the bug > A> report. Checked them. > A> But as I understand there is no solution available at the moment for this. > > I had partially solved the problem using the handler "OnGetText" ? > (I'm not sure about the name) for each field which is somehow dirty > forcing a codepage to UTF8 conversion (in Lazarus you will find some > codepage<->UTF conversions available).
I think that the original poster didn't looked very well in the archives, this solution is told here quite often. > A> I have a database that is not encoded utf8 (and it will never be because > A> other client programs are accessing it and their users do not want/need > A> to be converted to unicode). How do I get the field values into > A> FPC/Lazarus into a string variable? Right now the non-unicode strings > A> are returned as empty from a database field due to FCL conversion > functions. > > If you will need this as a fixed solution for this project maybe you > can think in create a new database unit file based in the current one > (change the name of course) with hardcoded UTF8 encoding from codepage > for each string once retrieved from the database. Take care about > string length as UTF8 ones will be equal or longer than the original > ones. You can just override one single method to do this. This is also told a few times on this list. Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
