[Lazarus] JSon stream to unicode?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Nov 12 22:04:06 CET 2010



On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

> Hi, I'm receiving from a Delphi 7 app a unicode Stream (from Synapse
> library) containing Unicode data and I need to show it in a Lazarus
> form. How can I convert it to look correctly on screen?.
>
> Example:
>
> The string "Leonardo Ramé" is shown as "Leonardo Ram\u009".

If you're using the fpJSON unit, it's currently not UTF-8 tested.
It *should* work - insofar that unicode escape sequences are recognized and
converted. I've never tested that, though.

Also, if you're on linux, make sure you're using the cwstrings unit.

Michael.


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