[Lazarus] Please help with strings "dissappearing" - because of funny non-ascii chars

[Reenen Laurie]

Ermmm...

Seems like google has something to "clean" those chars from it.  When I
tried to post it, I had the weird character in there...

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Reenen Laurie <rlaurie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Luca said:
> You have to either convert the file to utf8 before opening it or convert
> it while you read it.
>
> How do I convert it? What I've tried is:
> * Open the badly formatted file in the Lazarus IDE, then copied the "funny"
> chars into the following code:
> * s := stringReplace(s,'"','""',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
> * s := stringReplace(s,'"','""',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
>
> But that also doesn't work...
>
> Sigh...
>
> Regards,
> -Reenen
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:
>
>> En/na Reenen Laurie ha escrit:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am at the end of my patience, and I have no clue what to do, and this
>> > project needed to have been done a week or so back.
>> >
>> > When I execute attached program (*very* simple).  And open file
>> > "example.csv" then my showmessage command doesn't display anything.
>> >
>> > I am unsure if there is anything in the string, though I think it is.
>> >
>> > Please help! How can I get that funny chars to display... even if I have
>> > to somehow replace them with an ascii counterpart.
>>
>> The LCL only works with utf8, while your file appears to be cp1250.
>> You have to either convert the file to utf8 before opening it or convert
>> it while you read it.
>> BTW, under linux I see the funny characters, though they're not what
>> they should be. I don't know it if is because I'm trying with a snapshot
>> of 0.9.26.1 or because the linux interface is more tolerant with
>> malformed strings than the windows one.
>>
>> Bye
>> --
>> Luca
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