Because it depends on the code page of the system you are using at the moment you parse the char.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM, ik <ido...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem with such function is that it requires a lot of data to be >> used on a non ANSI table. and you can not use in a unicode >> implementation the Char type, because a char can be more then one >> byte. > > I know that all to well. :-) I made a ugly hack just so I can get > that ported code working (compilable) under Linux. The Delphi code I > am porting is pre-Unicode, so I don't care about Unicode at this > moment, but many non-ANSI chars will still fall through the cracks > with my implementation. :-( > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
