[fpc-pascal] Casting UTF8String, WideString and UnicodeString into AnsiString and vice versa

[Jonas Maebe]

On 03 Dec 2012, at 18:12, ik wrote:

> I made casting of UTF8String, WideString and UnicodeString to AnsiString:
> https://github.com/ik5/fp-msgpack/blob/master/src/msgpack.pas#L452
> 
> As an example.
> 
> My tests works. but are there things/contents that can break this
> casting, or change the content itself in some way ?

It creates a new temporary string with the default code page for that string type (e.g., DefaultSystemCodePage for ansistring), and converts the original string's content to this new encoding.


Jonas