[Lazarus] I cannot use System.Length() to calculate visible width of string, now !

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 14:26:12 CEST 2008


You mean like the UTF8Length() function in LCLProc unit?

Graeme.



On 19/06/2008, Андрей Гусев <ag888 at rambler.ru> wrote:
> Because Length() returns bytes count.
>  Have lazarus conventional function to calculate chars count in string,
>  that do it independently from its binary representation ?
>  "Length() div 2" is not conventional nor portable.
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Lazarus mailing list
>  Lazarus at lazarus.freepascal.org
>  http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
>


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/




More information about the Lazarus mailing list