[fpc-pascal] Re: Widestrings length and character iteration

[Christos Chryssochoidis]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
 >
 > Op Wed, 9 May 2007, schreef Christos Chryssochoidis:
 >
 >> OK, I figured out what happened. The source file was saved in  
UTF-8 encoding,
 >> but I hadn't put in my source file the compiler directive  
{$CODEPAGE UTF8}.
 >> After including this directive in my code almost everything  
worked fine:
 >> length() was returning the right number of unicode characters, and
 >> subscripting the widestring returned the right character. But as  
the widechar
 >> and widestring encoding is, as you said, UTF-16, while my Mac OS  
X console
 >> uses UTF-8 encoding, for the output results to be displayed  
correctly I had to
 >> wrap the individual widechars or the whole widestring with the  
function
 >> utf8encode(), prior to output them with write()...
 >
 > This means no widestring manager was used; the default dumb  
widestring
 > manager converts to iso-8859-1. Use the "cwstring" unit will use the
 > system encoding when reading/writing widestrings.
 >
 > Daniël
 >
 >
 >  
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I called setCWideStringManager() from my code, but it did not had any  
effect. A call to utf8encode() is still needed from proper output.