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ANSI in the Win32 API is not about the character set ANSI

Compas Pascal – One of the most frequent misunderstandings that I have seen about the Unicode migration of Delphi, is that many consider the Ansistring of Delphi 2007 and older, and all the Ansi functions in the APIs, to be about the ANSI character set. If you live in USA or any other country that uses Windows-1252 (aka ANSI) as the default character set, it all fits together: ansistring contains strings using

Favorite? Off-Topic? Lars D @ 2010-01-23 11:16