On 14/10/2019 7:38 pm, Alexey Tor. wrote: > >Does SysUtils.DirectoryExists work? > > No, the dir name is pure English, so DirectoryExistsUTF8 does the same.
:-) There is no such thing as "pure English". I assume what you were trying to say, is that some text are encoded differently, depending on the platform. So you might need to convert the text to the OS Encoding. eg: fpGUI uses the following, which all fpGUI based applications use, no matter what platform they are on. function fpgDirectoryExists(const ADirectory: TfpgString): Boolean; begin Result := DirectoryExists(fpgToOSEncoding(ADirectory)); end; Then the fpgToOSEncoding() has different implementations for various platforms (eg: Unix vs Windows) // Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) - basically do nothing because those OSes // use UTF-8 by default. function fpgToOSEncoding(aString: TfpgString): string; begin Result := aString; end; // Under Windows I have this implementation function fpgToOSEncoding(aString: TfpgString): string; begin Result := Utf8ToAnsi(aString); end; But as I mentioned, any application developer that uses fpGUI simply needs to use the fpgDirectoryExists() method and doesn't need to worry about encoding/decoding text. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
