> If I have a ansistring, and cast that to a WideString, fpc is
> converting from which encoding to which encoding?
the default is ISO-8859-1 to UCS-2/UTF-16 (the only difference between the
two being UTF-16 support for surrogates), however this can be changed by
registering a widestring manager.
> > I'm not sure what
> > WideString holds. Maybe UTF-16? Or a limited UTF-16 with only 2 bytes
> > characters.
>
> UCS-2. Basically this is UTF-16 with only 2-byte characters, allthough
> there are small differences in the high regions; UCS-2 is code
> points $0..$, while UTF-16 has facilities
Op Tue, 10 Oct 2006, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
> Hello,
>
> If I have a ansistring, and cast that to a WideString, fpc is
> converting from which encoding to which encoding?
Without widestring manager, it converts iso-8859-1 to UCS-2.
> ansistring can hold utf-8 also, not only iso.
