[fpc-pascal] Help making code unicode capable

[Jonas Maebe]

On 10 Nov 2007, at 15:24, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

>> utf8decode returns string I assume?
>
> It returns WideString. Is there a function to manually alloc a
> widestring like StrAlloc?

Assign it to a variable of the type widestring. If you cannot this  
variable in scope the whole time, you have to allocate enough memory  
(length(widestring)*2+2) and copy the contents (including the  
terminating zero) to the allocated memory block.


Jonas