[SOLVED] CSVDocument and UTF-8 characters

[lainz]

Hi I'm using CSVDocument, and I can't read propery UTF-8 characters like áéíóúÁÉÍÓÜñÑ.

There's a way I can do this?

[Thaddy]

If the characters in the document are truly utf8 and not encoded in any other ansi codepage?
simply make your strings utf8 and maybe also add {$codepage utf8} on top of your source  units. The latter is to interpret string literals in utf8 correctly.
Also note that if you are compiling for a terminal or console app, the codepage of te terminal must be utf8 too.
But the file may also have been encoded in a different code page, e.g. mid-european.
In that case, on Windows you sometimes need to use the provided conversion functions:

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1. {$ifndef unix}
2. initialization
3.    SetMultiByteConversionCodePage(CP_UTF8);
4. finalization
5.    SetMultiByteConversionCodePage(CP_ACP);// system default
6. {$endif}

[lainz]

simply make your strings utf8 and maybe also add {$codepage utf8} on top of your source  units.

Thanks Thaddy. Solved!