[fpc-pascal] ord() of a string index returns wrong value.

[Pew (piffle.the.cat)]

Hi Jonas,

On 01/30/2011 03:13 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> On 29 Jan 2011, at 17:05, Pew (piffle.the.cat) wrote:
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>> I have a problem where ord() of a character (single string index) returns the wrong value. the character is a 'o' which is a 111 value but the ord of it returns 121 into an integer. What am I doing wrong?
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> Is that Lazarus code? If so, the string will be utf-8 encoded and you cannot assume that str[i] corresponds to the i'th character of the string. Even if it's not Lazarus code, it could still be utf-8 encoded depending on what the source of the string is and/or the locale settings of the system.

Yes, it is Lazarus code. Okay so I think that we have found the problem. 
Now how do I fix it?

The string is a string parameter to a procedure. Should I change the 
type of this declaration?, or is there something else that I should do? 
If I should change it's type, then what to?

> procedure TFixedFont.WriteText2(x, y: integer; Txt: string;
>   var PaintBox1: TPaintBox);

> http://pastebin.com/P7Wpkekx

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