[fpc-devel] HTML string to TFPColor

[Werner Pamler]

Am 23.07.2017 um 18:09 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> This exists:
>
> function ResolveHTMLEntityReference(const Name: WideString;  var 
> Entity: WideChar): Boolean;
>
> is in unit htmldefs, fcl-xml package.

Thank you. Seeking more carefully would have saved me a lot of tedious 
typing... Replaced my own routine by this one, and it is working fine. 
BTW: Wouldn't it be useful to overload it with a utf8 version?

2nd remark: The sax unit in the same folder is also WideString-only. 
 From the Lazarus point of view, UTF8 would be preferrable as well. I 
remember older experiments trying to read Excel files with sax which 
suffered from a significant slowdown because of widestring-to-utf8 
conversions.