[fpc-devel] TField.AsString and Databases with UTF-8 charset

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> 
> Somehow Delphi 2009 must also be confronted with this, with their native
> unicode support. Hm.

Afaik D2009 always works in 2 byte units. Surrogates are a problem of the
user I guess.

I don't fully understand why this function must return exact characters and
not e.g. words.