> >> What would be the correct solution? > > > > I am showing my ignorance of multi byte characater handling here, but > > I think it would be to write an escaped sequence as is currently done > > for wide strings. I don't think the current OutChars function is quite > > up to it, as utf8 characters can be 32 bits? > > As a bit of background information as to why some work may ve necessary, > the problem I had was with a copyright character in a string property, > which some version of Delphi had decided to write out as utf8.
I think that the ultimate solution is to implement Unicode strings, I mean not escaped Unicode, and then convert utf-8 to unicode string. I'm not sure how Delphi manage that, Java has Unicode string. Bye Uberto _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
