On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:24:32PM +0200, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > Basically if you use "utf8string" you get a string that forces UTF-8. > > > And if you use "String" (= AnsiString(CP_ACP) if my assumption about current > FPC trunk is correct) it forces it to the 8bit system encoding. The only > stringtype which does not enforce encoding is "RawByteString". > All "AFAIK" of course. ;-)
That's correct. But in Windows, you use Windows functions for conversion, and CP_ACP is a valid value there. On *nix, you first have to find out what the local encoding is, and it seems that Mattias is detecting a problem there. Be careful with assuming too much about RawBytestring being a normal type. In Delphi it is afaik only used in parameters (and function return values), more or less as a kind of open array type. There are no variables of the type "rawbytestring" defined. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
