[Lazarus] PAnsiChar to UTF8 issues

[José Mejuto]

El 09/04/2013 19:35, Leonardo M. Ramé escribió:

>
> 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.
>

Hello,

Maybe you have an ANSI string inside a string type declared as UTF8 
coded, so try this:

var
   ansivar: ansistring;
begin

   ansivar:=lStr; //Your lStr
   SetCodePage(RawByteString(ansivar),CP_ACP,false);

   //Display the ansivar instead lStr to check.
end;

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