[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

[Joost van der Sluis]

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.

Joost.