On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> // Assume TEncoding.SystemEncoding > Function GetFileAsString(Const aFileName : RawByteString) : RawByteString; > // Specify encoding > Function GetFileAsString(Const aFileName : RawByteString; aEncoding : > TEncoding) : RawByteString; > // Assume TEncoding.Unicode contents > Function GetFileAsString(Const aFileName : UnicodeString) : UnicodeString; > // Specify encoding, return Unicode string. > Function GetFileAsString(Const aFileName : UnicodeString; aEncoding : > TEncoding) : UnicodeString; Now I want to get the contents of a file, which contains either UTF8 or some single-byte encoding, and the filename is NOT in my locale (e.g. it may be chinese, which I cannot represent in RawByteString), but when I specify the filename as UnicodeString I am forced to receive the contents Unicode as well. From my perspective that sucks. -- Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
