[fpc-devel] Ansistring code page

[Paul Ishenin]

13.10.2011 21:21, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> This I don't really understand. 
This is how delphi works according to my tests. I will retest to be 100% 
sure.

> Shouldn't the constant be converted at run time from UTF-8 to the 
> DefaultSystemCodePage to make sure that an ansistring(0) variable 
> always contains strings encoded in the DefaultSystemCodePage? If you 
> assign e.g. a string(866) variable to a plain ansistring variable, 
> then such a conversion is also done, no?

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin