On 15-7-2013 18:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Reinier Olislagers schrieb: >> On 14-7-2013 8:00, Daniel Simoes de Ameida wrote: >> Workaround: make your field size as large as the maximum number of UTF8 >> bytes you expect. > > Another workaround: use the appropriate codepage for storing strings in > the database, so that all characters are single bytes. With the new > (encoded) AnsiStrings this should be quite easy (automatic conversion). >
Wouldn't you run into trouble if you want to use a character outside the codepage? Presumably OP has enabled UTF8 on the db instead of some other codepage on purpose. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
