I tried to get UTF8 encoded strings programatically by doing

    Key := UTF8Encode('ç');
    Str := UTF8Encode('Ç');

but when i test the code below it will fail, unlike when using know UTF8 encoded strings

    if WideCompareText(UTF8Decode(Key), UTF8Decode(Str)) = 0 then
      WriteLn('  WideCompareText OK');

Any hint on how to get UTF8 encoded strings at runtime?

Luiz

Hello FPC-Pascal,

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 9:33:20 PM, you wrote:

LAPC> I tried to get UTF8 encoded strings programatically by doing LAPC> Key := UTF8Encode('ç');
LAPC> Str := UTF8Encode('Ç');
LAPC> but when i test the code below it will fail, unlike when using know UTF8 LAPC> encoded strings
LAPC> Any hint on how to get UTF8 encoded strings at runtime?

Check your current source code format, this means the encoding of your .pas file, quite sure it is still UTF-8, so simply:

Key := 'ç';

Right click -> File settings -> Encoding