[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.x for Windows and code page conversion

[Lubos Pintes]

Hello,
Thanks for replies, I will try to explain this in other way:
My system code page is windows-1250. When a string is sent to a COM 
component, it is somehow converted to UTF-16. Thus FPC knows how to do 
the conversion. Now I know that I am receiving text in UTF-8. Thus I 
called UTF8ToANSI to uselessly convert the UTF-8 to ANSI and then FPC 
converted it to UTF-16 to make COM happy.
Although it worked well in many cases, a data loss may occur.
So to reformulate this question, how to avoid this useless conversion 
step? I thought that setting the default code page to UTF-8 just do the 
trick.

Dňa 23. 11. 2015 o 17:29 Jonas Maebe napísal(a):
>
> Lubos Pintes wrote on Mon, 23 Nov 2015:
>
>> I am developing a console application which receives an UTF-8 encoded
>> text through stdin.
>> The text is, after possible modification, sent to SAPI5. The SAPI5
>> generated interface wrappers have parameters of type string.
>> In FPC 2.6.4, I used UTF8toANSI on various places and that worked
>> well. Now after reading about FPC 3.x's unicode support, I thought
>> that adding this line say after begin in the main program could be
>> enough:
>> SetMultiByteConversionCodePage(CP_UTF8);
>> It however doesn't work.
>
> That routine sets the default code page for ansistrings. It does not
> change I/O.
>
>> How can I solve this without conversion to ANSI?
>
> The code page can be set per I/O channel:
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/3.0.0/rtl/system/settextcodepage.html (and
> Michael: I just noticed a typo on that page, under "Description" it says
> GetTextCodePage instead of SetTextCodePage)
>
>
> Jonas
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