On 11.12.2015 15:20, "Jürgen Hestermann" wrote:
>My link explains some differences important for Lazarus. But it does not explain the difference between an "UTF8String" and an "UTF8 String" >The encoding hassle is built into Windows. The compiler cannot overcome >it. It can only give you tools to make it easier. That is not true. Windows uses 2 kinds of strings: ANSI (one byte) and/or UTF16 (2 byte). None of them can be used with UTF8 functions so a conversion is needed anyway.
This is not entirely correct. Windows uses multi byte strings (one byte per character or more) and UTF-16 (which is mostly 2 Byte and 4 for surrogate pairs). The functions WideCharToMultiByte and MultiByteToWideChar which are also used inside FPC for string conversions both take a CodePage parameter that can also be CP_UTF8.
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