On 06/24/2013 03:11 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: > You can funnily store utf8 in type ansistring under Delphi 7 too. Yep. But D7 does not rely on some string to be encoded in UTF8 (but in the ANSI table the System configuration defines), while the LCL API wants to see the strings in UTF8 code. _This_ is funny IMHO. -Michael