[Lazarus] String with °

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Kamen Kamen wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have string with ° and I want to delete all symbols to °. When I delete symbol ° returns #176. How can I delete this symbol?

What is the encoding of this string ? UTF8 ?

> 
> Exampe: s := '49°45 ';
> 
> After: delete (s, 1, 2); --> '°45 '
> 
> After: delete (s, 1, 1); or delete (s, pos ('°', s), 1); -->  #176'45 '

Delete uses a byte count, not a char count. If your string is encoded in UTF-8, then you will probably get the behaviour you see.

To my knowledge, there is currently no routine in the RTL that does this correct.

Michael.