[Lazarus] German Umlauts and Oracle Connection

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015, John Landmesser wrote:

> i get Citynames from a oracle Database, but i get for example "Gie?en" 
> instead of "Gießen" In a TDBGrid.
>
> I tried different Charset in my OracleConnection.Charset as mentioned 
> from Oracle on
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28298/applocaledata.htm#CIAJAGCB
>
> but without success!

Normally, I'd expect you'd have to specify UTF8 as the charset, since that is what the LCL uses.

>
>
> If i put a Tedit on my form, i can write "Gießen", so it has to be a 
> setting in OracleConnection?!!
>
> MainForm.Font.CharSet Is DEFAULT_CHARSET
>
> Tipps are welcome!

What platform is this ?

If it is linux, did you include cwstring in your program's uses clause ?

Michael.