[lazarus] Special characters under Window$ and XPM

[Luis R. Hilario]

Sebastian Günther wrote:
> 
> "Luis R. Hilario" wrote:
> >
> > 1- Special characters:
> > -------------------------
> > If a string contains a special character does not appear anything.
> > Caption := '© 2001 Luis Digital.'; //© = (C)
> > The exit is equal to: nothing (invisible).
> >
> > The solution that myself went to create a unit that converts some
> > special characters so that they can be read by GTK-Windows.
> 
> AFAIK, GTK uses UTF-8 as character encoding on Win32 (on Linux it uses
> whatever you configured, ISO8859-1 (=the well-known ANSI 8-bit charset)
> is default). Some information on this can be found here:
> http://www.freepascal.org/unicode/
> (Note: This stuff will get obsolete in the future, when FPC has full
> Unicode support on its own)
> 
> I wrote a small unit which offeres UTF-8 conversion functions as well as
> UTF-8 versions of Length and StrLen (which count the number of
> characters, and not the number of bytes, as Length and StrLen would do.)
> You can get it at the location given above.

Thanks, is genial!

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