Zitat von Joost van der Sluis <joost@cnoc.nl>:

> Op vrijdag 12-09-2008 om 13:22 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef JoshyFun:
>
> > A> Thanks for pointing me to the Lazarus thread about this and the bug
> > A> report. Checked them.
> > A> But as I understand there is no solution available at the moment for
> this.
> >
> > I had partially solved the problem using the handler "OnGetText" ?
> > (I'm not sure about the name) for each field which is somehow dirty
> > forcing a codepage to UTF8 conversion (in Lazarus you will find some
> > codepage<->UTF conversions available).
>
> I think that the original poster didn't looked very well in the
> archives, this solution is told here quite often.
>
> > A> I have a database that is not encoded utf8 (and it will never be because
> > A> other client programs are accessing it and their users do not want/need
> > A> to be converted to unicode). How do I get the field values into
> > A> FPC/Lazarus into a string variable? Right now the non-unicode strings
> > A> are returned as empty from a database field due to FCL conversion
> functions.
> >
> > If you will need this as a fixed solution for this project maybe you
> > can think in create a new database unit file based in the current one
> > (change the name of course) with hardcoded UTF8 encoding from codepage
> > for each string once retrieved from the database. Take care about
> > string length as UTF8 ones will be equal or longer than the original
> > ones.
>
> You can just override one single method to do this. This is also told a
> few times on this list.

Maybe it is not documented at the right place?

Mattias


