[fpc-devel] String and UnicodeString and UTF8Stringt

[LacaK]

Martin Schreiber  wrote / napísal(a):
> On Wednesday, 12. January 2011 09.45:47 LacaK wrote:
>   
>> So where is error ?
>> 1. Is it wrong expectation by LCL, that TField.Text is always UTF8 string
>> -or-
>> 2. Is it wrong in implementation of TSQLConnectors, which write data
>> into record buffer (of TStringField) and do not convert them always into
>> UTF-8 ?
>> (if data should be always in UTF-8 then it will be good redefine
>> TField.Text property like "property Text: UTF8String" to be clear, that
>> we always work with UTF-8 strings)
>> -or
>> 3. I missed something ? ;-)
>>
>>     
> MSEgui sqldb version converts to UTF-16 from/to system encoding or utf-8 
> (selectable by option properties) and uses FPC 16bit UnicodeString to store 
> string field values in the dataset, the tmsestringfield returns UnicodeString 
> values. So one can either use utf-8 encoded databaseconnections or 
> connections with the current system encoding.
> MSEgui uses 16 bit UnicodeString everywhere, the conversion from/to system 
> encoding is done transparently by the FPC unicode/widestring-manager if 
> necessary.
> This is a solution which works now, no additional complicated and possibly 
> less performant codepage and encoding aware stringtype necessary...
>
>   
Yes, sounds logicaly to me.
Then you propose same way for TStringField ? (internaly store as 
UnicodeString UTF-16 and also TStringField.Text should return 
UnicodeString instead of String ? ... what will happens in LCL, when 
visual component will read UTF-16 string, will they be translated into 
UTF-8 automagicaly?)
-Laco.
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