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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> 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.

TField.Size is the declared size in characters. What the size of the data 
buffer is, is another matter, and depends largely on design decisions. That's
what we need to resolve.

Michael.