[Lazarus] UTF-8 string recognition

[Antônio]

I refer to a text loaded in a SynEdit by the user in which I need to
make some string manipulations.

Antônio

2010/2/28 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:12 -0300
> Antônio <antoniog12345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is no way to determine whether a string is in ANSI format or not?
>
> In general: No, because every 8bit combination is valid.
> In specific case: Not every combination makes sense. So you can write
> heuristics.
>
> You should save/define the encoding of a string. For example all
> strings in the LCL are UTF-8.
>
> Mattias
>
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