Re: Converting WideChar/WideString to AnsiChar/AnsiString

ckoegl wrote:
I cannot find anything definitive in the Delphi docs and in the
relevant newsgroups that answers this simple question:

What is the exact definition of the WideChar to AnsiChar conversion
(and in extension of the WideString to AnsiString conversion)?

I suppose that for all WideChar values that are valid AnsiChar values
(i.e. the ones with Ord-values of 0 to 255) are preserved in the
conversion, but what about the rest?

They're truncated, I think. Or it's a range-check error.

Converting a WideString to an AnsiString involves converting the WideString to the current system code page, but I'm pretty sure that effort is *not* used for converting WideChar to AnsiChar.

And if that's the case, then the conversion is nonsense. Don't do it.

--
Rob
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