On 09 May 2012, at 21:46, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: >>> Is it (already) possible to use Unicodestrings for file paths? >> >> Only if your current ansi code page supports the characters used in the >> unicodestring. There are not unicodestring overloads yet in the RTL. > > I think Joerg means something else. The Unicode winapi functions on Windows > have support for longer paths.
He said: > I was able to access long paths (with many hundreds of characters) > in the windows API functions FindFirstFileW (with Win32_Find_DataW > data type) but I failed to open such files with Assign(File)/reset. > Are they converted to (one byte) Ansistring internally? So as far as I can see, he was in fact asking whether the regular RTL functions (such as assign/reset) already included unicodestring support. He already knew that it works fine if you use the Windows APIs directly. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
