On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:03:38 +0200 "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/6/29 Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > If you create a file with a russian name on your hard disk, can you > > use fpgFileExists to check for its existence? > > I don't know how to change the Windows language to Russian, but I do > under Linux. So I did the following. I changed my Linux systems locale > for an application to Russian. I had Russian translations of fpGUI > Toolkit so used those. I copied the rsCancel resourcestring value (in > Russian) to a Edit component. Copied that to clipboard, used the File > Open dialog to 'create directory' and pasted the Russian word for > Cancel in their. Now I had a Russian directory on the hard drive. I > quit the program, changed back to English locale. Loaded the program, > and it displayed the Russian directory correctly. > > PS: > Even Linux's terminal didn't display the russian directory correcty. > A whole bunch of '?????????' instead. fpGUI worked fine! ;-) How did you change to russian locale? > See attached screenshot. Application using English locale > (en_ZA.UTF-8) as can be seen by the grid headers and displaying a > Russian directory name. Under Linux you use Result := aString; - no conversion. Still UTF-8. Linux is not the problem here. Windows is. You must use the W functions. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal