Op vrijdag 12-09-2008 om 15:56 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Mattias Gärtner: > Zitat von Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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. > > Maybe it is not documented at the right place?
It is not documented at all. Just like the rest of the database-stuff. But maybe I should write a FAQ for fpc. With the new lazarus-versions using UTF-8 by default, this is asked quite often. Joost _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
