[Lazarus] PAnsiChar to UTF8 issues

[waldo kitty]

On 4/9/2013 14:42, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
> On 09/04/13 6:35, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>>
>> No, I've tried all kinds of combinations of ansitoutf8, unicodestring,
>> etc, but nothing works, all returns "?" or the box with the X in the
>> place of "ñ" or accents.
>
> Impertinent question really, but do you know for certain that the font assigned
> to your label has glyphs corresponding to each unicode entity your string contains?

i was wondering the same thing but couldn't get it to phrase properly... the 
font table is what i was having trouble with expressing... thanks for clearly 
pointing out another possible problem area for UTF-8 glyph rendering... 
hopefully this will be documented as a possible pitfall in the UTF functions' 
documentation or basic explanation of operations...