[Lazarus] UTF-8 string recognition

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:28:38 -0300
Antônio <antoniog12345 at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Ah, so not a string, but a whole text. See here

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiplatform_Programming_Guide#Text_encoding

GuessEncoding checks for UTF8, UTF16 and defaults to the system
encoding. It does not yet contain heuristics to distinguish the
various Ansi encodings.


Mattias