[fpc-pascal] RTL and Unicode Strings

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-05-11 12:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> No, it does not save you, where did you get that from ?

It helps. Any encoding to UTF-16 (or UTF-8) is safe. The other way round
is not. There is no guarantee that String (or AnsiString) is using a
Unicode encoding. So depending on where you get your data from, in my
case that data is one of the Unicode encodings, doing a conversion to
anything other than another Unicode encoded variable (or RawByteString)
means I could loose data.

See my actual database example (with sample code) titled "code example
where AnsiString used in FCL (SqlDB) causes data loss" - whenever a
moderator releases that post to the mailing list. Otherwise I can
forward it to you in private.

Regards,
  Graeme

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