On 3/2/13, Xiangrong Fang <xrf...@gmail.com> wrote: > In order to write cross platform programs, shall I use ForceDirectories or > ForceDirectoriesUTF8? I would like to:
I would think that that depends on where you get the value for ForceDirectories(UTF8) from. If this vale is obtained from any widget (OpenDialog, TEdit, etc.) the encoding of the value is in UTF-8. If however you get the value as a commandline parameter, then it is in system-encoding if you use ParamStr(), but in UTF-8 if you use ParamStrUTF8(). So you would use: Path := ParamStr(1); ForceDirectories(Path); or Path := SelectDirectoryDialog1.FileName; ForceDirectoriesUtf8(Path); You need to be sure which encoding a string has when you pass it on to such procedures/functions. Bart -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
