Hello FPC, Thursday, January 13, 2011, 1:01:57 PM, you wrote:
L> Also it seems to me, that when you call ANSI version of ODBC API L> functions, then you receive data in ANSI encoding. L> If it is so, then it is always safe use ansitoutf8() (or UTF8Encode()) L> on receved data. No, because ANSI is not UTF-* so any char outside of your ANSI codepage will be discarded or generate and exception, or whatever the developer decides (driver developer). L> In Windows we get UTF-16, in Linux/UNIX we get UTF-8 If you use ANSI calls in linux you will receive UTF8 because in most linux the ANSI page is UTF8. If you call the *W APIs you MUST receive WideString or PWideCharArray or alike, or the API will not work. -- Best regards, José _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
