[Lazarus] UTF16 2 utf8

[Giuliano Colla]

Eduard Filipas ha scritto:
> as much as i do enjoy your debate what UCS2 is and what is not i still 
> dont know how to proceed in my problem where data aware controls dont 
> recognize my local characters...
> 

Sort of "the operation was successful, but the patient is dead" ;-)

However, forgetting the nuances, AFAIK what SQL documentation calls UCS2 
should have a rough equivalent to the WideString (and WideChar) type in 
FPC. Therefore if you store your database strings in WideStrings, they 
should be treated and converted properly. Or you may take advantage of 
the functions UTF8Encode and UTF8Decode to convert Widestrings back and 
forth into UTF-8. But maybe not always 100% correct, from what I can 
gather. You must double check that all symbols of your locale are 
handled properly. The same sort of problems arises when using php.

-- 
Giuliano Colla

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde)