[Lazarus] Unable to display symbols

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:52:12 +0100
Giuliano Colla <giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm porting to Lazarus a Kylix application, where I need to display the 
> special symbols in the range $A0 to $BF such as: ¦ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥, etc. 
> (Actually I'm using a font where those symbols are replaced by other 
> symbols related to the application, but that's not relevant).
> But while, on the same platform, the Kylix application displays them 
> properly, the Lazarus application using the same code doesn't: with GTK2 
> ws they display as question marks or as crossed boxes, with Qt ws they 
> display as blanks.
> 
> The code is sort of:
> 
> aText: string;
> .....
> aText := 'SomeString' + char(ord($A0));
> .....
> canvas.TextOut(Pos.X,Pos.Y,aText);
> Label1.caption := aText;
> 
> Changing type from string to UTF8String has no effect.
> 
> What I'm doing wrong?

The solution lies in your own mail. Your mail is UTF-8 and so are the
above characters. Just copy the above characters from your mail to the
IDE:

aText := 'SomeString¥';

Note: Keep in mind that "char" is a single byte, but ¥ in UTF-8 is
multiple bytes.

Mattias