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

[Reenen Laurie]

This solution worked...

 s := stringReplace(s,chr(148),'"',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
 s := stringReplace(s,chr(147),'"',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
 s := stringReplace(s,chr(150),'--',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);
 s := stringReplace(s,chr(146),'''',[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]);

However this car is also giving me issues: é
There is not "equivalent"... only e...
Or is that é and alt 130 (é) different?

But this must be a problem that's happened a lot before?  Not so?



On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Reenen Laurie <rlaurie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>
>
>
> --
> o__
> ,_.>/ _
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> ...speed is good
> _______________
> I believe five out of four people have a problem with fractions.
>



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...speed is good
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I believe five out of four people have a problem with fractions.
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