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

[Андрей Гусев]

Yes. But UTF8Length() is portable between string encodings?
Solution is clean: i must use check ifdef'ed WindowsUnicodeSupport to
choice between UTF8Length()/Length(). But maybe it already
implemented as universal and conventional solution.

And, that adjanced questuion:
Lazarus, guessed, have a tool to recognize encoding by binary 
representation of string
(because Lazarus automatically recognize encodings in LFM files), so, 
how i can use it ?

Graeme Geldenhuys пишет:
> You mean like the UTF8Length() function in LCLProc unit?
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> Graeme.
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> On 19/06/2008, Андрей Гусев <ag888 at rambler.ru> wrote:
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>> 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.
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