[Lazarus] TStrings, Windows and Unicode

Marcos Douglas md at delfire.net
Wed Oct 24 18:09:43 CEST 2012


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Luca Olivetti <luca at wetron.es> wrote:
> Al 24/10/2012 16:14, En/na Howard Page-Clark ha escrit:
>
>> On 24/10/12 2:37, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>>>>> ...in my example I didn't do that and worked, why?
>>>
>>>
>>> I had not explained very well. When I said the file is Ok I mean the
>>> file on Windows Explorer, not in LCL.
>>> Do the test and you see.
>>
>>
>> I guess the stringlist streaming saves the string with a BOM, and so
>> Explorer then recognises the encoding?
>
>
>
> There's no BOM, but notepad is capable of showing it correctly. The problem
> is, if you then save the file from notepad it will add a BOM, that will mess
> up the loading of the file in a stringlist (or, in my case, in a TIniFile).

Explained well. I tested and it's correct, thank you.

Marcos Douglas




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