On 2016-05-11 12:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > No, it does not save you, where did you get that from ?
It helps. Any encoding to UTF-16 (or UTF-8) is safe. The other way round is not. There is no guarantee that String (or AnsiString) is using a Unicode encoding. So depending on where you get your data from, in my case that data is one of the Unicode encodings, doing a conversion to anything other than another Unicode encoded variable (or RawByteString) means I could loose data. See my actual database example (with sample code) titled "code example where AnsiString used in FCL (SqlDB) causes data loss" - whenever a moderator releases that post to the mailing list. Otherwise I can forward it to you in private. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
