Re: Characters

Hi Adrian

Thanks a lot! After spending the day checking all sorts of things you saved
my day :)

-> I just added the unit 'cwstring' and now it works.

Thanks & good day

Cheers,
Peter

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Peter Broennimann
Untergasse 11 a
CH-8476 Unterstammheim
Switzerland
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2013/4/10 Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>

> On 04/10/2013 02:53 AM, P. Broennimann wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I am using PG 9.2 and 'pg_database' shows 'en_US.UTF-8'.
>>
>> I have a text 'Piqué' but this is shown in my application as 'Piqu?' so
>> I was wondering where the problem is?
>>
>> I am using Devart's 'PostgreSQL Data Access Components' to access PG
>> from FreePascal.
>>
>> In my FreePascal code I do use AnsiStrings and I cast the database
>> results/text 'UTF8ToAnsi(...)'
>>
>> Thanks for a hint!
>>
>
> Just guessing, but from FreePascal docs:
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/**docs-html/rtl/system/**utf8toansi.html<http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/utf8toansi.html>
>
> "
> Description
>
> Utf8ToAnsi converts an utf8-encode unicode string to an ansistring. It
> converts the string to a widestring and then converts the widestring to an
> ansistring.
>
> For this function to work, a widestring manager must be installed.
> "
>
> Is there a widestring manager?
>
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/**docs-html/rtl/system/**
> setwidestringmanager.html<http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/setwidestringmanager.html>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com
>