Story Category: Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
VOTEDelphi 2009 Development Essentials reviewed
Bob Swart
Robert Meek has written a book review about my Delphi 2009 Development Essentials, which is sold as paperback from Lulu.com, or offered as free bonus for anyone who purchases Delphi or one or more courseware… … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #10 – ANSI vs. Unicode UpperCase
Bob Swart
There’s an overloaded version of function UpperCase in the SysUtils unit as well as the AnsiStrings unit. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #8 – Integer and Float To AnsiString
Bob Swart
SysUtils defines the well-known IntToStr and FloatToStr, which return a Unicode String – but not an AnsiString. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #7 – Unicode Text File Output
Bob Swart
The TextFile of Delphi 2009 can only write AnsiStrings and not Unicode Strings, which means we can only write ANSI data to text files, right? Wrong! Since UTF8Strings are also (special) AnsiStrings, we can still… … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #6 – Character Literals
Bob Swart
Character literals between #128 and #255 – the so-called high ASCII values – have a specific value depending on the ANSI code page. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #5 – FillChar and Fill/ZeroMemory
Bob Swart
The FillChar routine fills a string or buffer with bytes, which means that we need to multiply the length of the string with the size of the string elements in order to fill the complete… … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #4 – Using and Extending TCharacter with IsVowel
Bob Swart
A helpful Unicode support class in Delphi 2009 is the TCharacter class, which is a sealed class which only consists of static class functions to check whether a character is a Digit, a Letter, etc. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Delphi 2009 Development Essentials published
Bob Swart
I just published Delphi 2009 Development Essentials on Lulu.com as paperback (24 Euro) or PDF download (16 Euro) as a 127 page A4-size book (38,638 words) that covers the new IDE, Compiler, Language, RTL/VCL and… … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #3 – UTF-16 Number of Printable Characters
Bob Swart
The number of elements of a string can be retrieved by calling the Length function. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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Unicode tip #2 – UTF-16 Surrogate Characters
Bob Swart
Although UTF-16 characters are simple WideChar characters, there are also surrogate characters (also WideChar items) that are used to produce a special Unicode character on a different plane than the default plane 0. … Read more
15 years ago in Books / Magazines, Unicode, Delphi
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