[Lazarus] PAnsiChar to UTF8 issues

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Wed Apr 10 02:20:11 CEST 2013


On 4/9/2013 15:49, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> On 2013-04-09 15:35:18 -0400, waldo kitty wrote:
>> 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...
>
> I really don't know, I'm using the same font as my Terminal (where the Ñ
> is shown correctly). Apart from it, I checked with other different
> fonts, and Charsets, but got the same result.

maybe your terminal is having problems? have you tried another terminal package 
in place of FCEwhateveritwas?





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