TOpenDialog.FileName encoding problems on Mac OS

[CarloM 3]

Hello,

When I use a OpenDialog.Filename on Mac OS and stores value in a SQlite varchar(255) column

no english chars like í, ó,... are converted to ? character.

 

Example: "Sin título.jpg" is converted to "Sin t?tulo.jpg" when stores to database.

 

If I invoke a showMessage(OpenDialog.Filename) it is ok.

but when I save:

 

DS.Edit;
DS.FieldByName('Nombre').AsString := ExtractFileName(OpenDialog.Filename);
DS.Post;

 

or if Assign to a AnsiString var then problem is the same

 

Regards

[Remy Lebeau 1394]

On 4/11/2019 at 3:53 AM, CarloM said:

When I use a OpenDialog.Filename on Mac OS and stores value in a SQlite varchar(255) column

no english chars like í, ó,... are converted to ? character.

As they should be.

On 4/11/2019 at 3:53 AM, CarloM said:

Example: "Sin título.jpg" is converted to "Sin t?tulo.jpg" when stores to database.

 

If I invoke a showMessage(OpenDialog.Filename) it is ok.

Makes sense, since you are saving to an ANSI database field, so you are invoking a lossy Unicode->ANSI conversion.

On 4/11/2019 at 3:53 AM, CarloM said:

but when I save:

 

DS.Edit;
DS.FieldByName('Nombre').AsString := ExtractFileName(OpenDialog.Filename);
DS.Post;

 

or if Assign to a AnsiString var then problem is the same

Because you are still invoking a conversion to ANSI.

 

Have you tried switching the database column to nvarchar, and using TField.AsWideString?

[CarloM 3]

Hi Remy,

 

I am use a SQLite database in UTF8 mode, I think that all was saved in UT8.

 

on Windows works well

 

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59 minutes ago, CarloM said:

Hi Remy,

 

I am use a SQLite database in UTF8 mode, I think that all was saved in UT8.

 

on Windows works well

 

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