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The broken FMX TOpenDialog
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– Both Core Foundation and Cocoa – Apple’s ‘high level’ APIs (the first for C, the second Objective-C) – use UTF-16 encoding for strings, just like Delphi. Alas, but the XE2 source code consistently ignores this fact, and uses UTF-8 roundtrips instead. I can guess why: on the one hand (and not unreasonably), the RTL uses OS X’s POSIX layer as much as possible, which uses UTF-8; and on the other, the syntax for getting a Delphi string from a Cocoa or Core Foundation string via UTF-8 is, funnily enough, syntactically simpler than the code for avoiding a ...
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