[Lazarus] substr return wrong string with some utf8 char

José Mejuto joshyfun at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 19:10:15 CET 2011


Hello Lazarus-List,

Friday, February 11, 2011, 6:55:43 PM, you wrote:

>> Nothing is needed for utf8copy ;) utf8pos is needed to return the
>> "characters" position of an string it use for utf8copy or to display
>> the information somewhere is a different matter.
HPD> Why determine an UTF-8 character index, when this one has to be
HPD> converted later into an byte (char) index inside utf8copy?

Please, re-read my comment ( fixing my "it use" by "if used" :) ). The
result is a character position index, not a need for use copy, but
maybe for an information display.

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Best regards,
 José





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