On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 11:34:51 +0100 Tony Whyman <tony.whyman at mccallumwhyman.com> wrote: > Am I right in saying that the only AnsiString type that it is safe to > use with the LCL is UTF8 (even under Windows)? UTF-8 is an encoding, not an AnsiString type. And yes, the LCL expects UTF-8. Mattias