On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:52:12 +0100 Giuliano Colla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm porting to Lazarus a Kylix application, where I need to display the > special symbols in the range $A0 to $BF such as: ¦ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥, etc. > (Actually I'm using a font where those symbols are replaced by other > symbols related to the application, but that's not relevant). > But while, on the same platform, the Kylix application displays them > properly, the Lazarus application using the same code doesn't: with GTK2 > ws they display as question marks or as crossed boxes, with Qt ws they > display as blanks. > > The code is sort of: > > aText: string; > ..... > aText := 'SomeString' + char(ord($A0)); > ..... > canvas.TextOut(Pos.X,Pos.Y,aText); > Label1.caption := aText; > > Changing type from string to UTF8String has no effect. > > What I'm doing wrong? The solution lies in your own mail. Your mail is UTF-8 and so are the above characters. Just copy the above characters from your mail to the IDE: aText := 'SomeString¥'; Note: Keep in mind that "char" is a single byte, but ¥ in UTF-8 is multiple bytes. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
