On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Howard Page-Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/10/12 12:40, Marcos Douglas wrote: > >>> Nope. >>> A stringlist is not LCL and it does not expect anything but strings. >> >> >> I agree... >> >>> If you write the contents of a stringlist to a file you get bytes you >>> have >>> put into the list. Nothing more nothing less. >> >> >> Yes, but... >> >>> If you want a UTF8 text file written, make sure you put UTF8 in it. >>> Same for reading. >>> When using filenames, you need to convert the name using the LCL function >>> LCLtoSys (or something like that) >> >> >> ...in my example I didn't do that and worked, why? > > > Because you added a UTF8 string to a stringlist. It was saved as UTF8 bytes > (as Marc pointed out) and when later retrieved via a stringlist LoadFromFile > call those bytes will be inserted into the stringlist just as they were > saved, ready to display in UTF8 encoding.
I had not explained very well. When I said the file is Ok I mean the file on Windows Explorer, not in LCL. Do the test and you see. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
