[fpc-pascal] code example where AnsiString used in FCL (SqlDB) causes data loss

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Wed, 11 May 2016:
>
>> On Wed, 11 May 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> 
>>> If anybody has the time, I would really like to learn how. Using FPC
>>> 3.x. Running the example program in a Latin-1 [console] environment and
>>> still get the correct data stored in the output.data file. I can't see a
>>> solution until SqlDB is changed.
>> 
>> There is none satisfactory.
>
> While not 100% satisfactory, doing exactly the same as in FPC 2.6.x will give 
> you exactly the same as you got there.

I am aware of this. We are using lots of DB apps at my work and so I tested this.
The apps work without change.

The biggest problem for going to 3.0.0 is the currency bug.

Michael.