[fpc-pascal] request for help: connecting to WIN1251 (ANSI) codepaged DB (FB1.0.3) in Lazarus

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

2010/4/1 62mkv <62mkv at mail.ru>:
>  I've made requests on several FreePascal\Lazarus forums, all states
>  that I need either to migrate to migrate to more recent version of
>  FB (most popular advice, which I cannot follow) or "patch" SqlDB
>  components so that they should make on-the-fly AnsiToUTF8 and vice versa conversion

Another solution is not using data-aware controls, read your data
directly from the database though your TDataset object and before
sending the strings to Lazarus convert them using CP1251ToUTF8

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho