Comments for Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-10-16T21:45:15-07:00

Something very pertinent that I spent about a day in total trying to work out what was going wrong: If your components are using the MS Sans Serif font (and probably others), some Unicode characters will not display correctly. Tahoma is a much safer font to use - this is also the default font for forms in Delphi 2009.

re: Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-19T05:00:57-07:00

The process to Unicodify your code shouldn´t be to hard.... unless you´ve got a project with more than 2 million lines of code as we do!

re: Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-18T03:53:40-07:00

Yes, it is wrong. It should be SizeOf(Buf), as explained in the section before that.

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-14T22:02:22-07:00

Is this typo?In code example of TMemoryStream,----------- Write(Pointer(Temp)^, Length(Temp));//Write(Pointer(Str)^, Length(Str)); <-- this is the ... should be Write(Pointer(Temp)^, Length(Temp) * SizeOf(AnsiChar));//Write(Pointer(Str)^, Length(Str) * SizeOf(Char)); <-- this is the ...-----------

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-14T19:29:25-07:00

Is this typo?In Example code:FillChar(Buf, Length(Buf), #9); should beFillChar(Buf, SizeOf(Buf), #9);

re: Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-11T15:37:09-07:00

I found printing from "Edit Content" button (on the top right corner of this article) then open the .doc file using M$-Word gives better layout.

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-11T08:51:24-07:00

What about the data type mapping in databases?

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-11T00:22:44-07:00

It would be nice to be able to print this article, but neither this page nor the "printer friendly" version result in a somewhat nice printout (using IE7 or Firefox 3)

Delphi in a Unicode World Part III: Unicodifying Your Code

2008-09-11T00:17:52-07:00

In the example below "Calls to SizeOf on Buffers" the explanation for Length(p) returning 17 is a little bit misleading, I think. The result is 17 not because 'This is a string' consists of 16 characters and a null termination character is included in the result -- which would be wrong, as Length() never includes the trailing null character. It's 17 because Length(p) = High(p) - Low(p) + 1 for every array p. Even if p held 'string' as its value, the result of Length(p) would have been 17.

Page too wide!

2008-09-10T23:21:01-07:00

This page is quite wide, not fitting even on a 1280px screen, making it difficult to read, especially at lower screen resolutions.