tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post7179960976210722095..comments2022-06-29T08:53:03.580+02:00Comments on Compas Pascal: ANSI in Delphi is not about the character set ANSIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-30826153710264685672010-01-23T19:24:48.440+01:002010-01-23T19:24:48.440+01:00@Chris: You are basically repeating my point. Howe...@Chris: You are basically repeating my point. However, I'm not mixing Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 with ASCII, I actually don't even mention these two encodings.<br /><br />@mignoz: Using AnsiUppercase with Unicode makes perfect sense for those that already internationalized their apps in Delphi 2007 and previous versions. All human readable texts needed Ansi* functions before to work correctly, Lars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-10489889967936348282010-01-23T15:07:28.544+01:002010-01-23T15:07:28.544+01:00Also note that since d2009, AnsiUpperCase works on...Also note that since d2009, AnsiUpperCase works on UnicodeStrings, not AnsiStrings. This is really confusing, but was done to ease the migration of older source code.<br />http://www.bobswart.nl/weblog/Blog.aspx?RootId=5:3029OckZoNozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525960375266684221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-90155019722679861202010-01-23T13:51:39.040+01:002010-01-23T13:51:39.040+01:00Note that Latin-1 is not the same as Windows-1252 ...Note that Latin-1 is not the same as Windows-1252 (which is the codepage most often used when people refer to Latin-1). Latin-9 comes closer, but is still not the same. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_1, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252<br /><br />–jeroenAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244706419710554421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-67796717944000126692010-01-23T12:53:49.022+01:002010-01-23T12:53:49.022+01:00There is no 'misunderstanding' insofar as ...There is no 'misunderstanding' insofar as people use the term 'ANSI codepage' to cover 8 bit codepages as a group, since that is standard usage in a Windows context (what do you think the 'A' suffix standards for?). Moreover, even in your preferred restricted sense, it is not really correct to refer to Windows Latin-1 as 'the ANSI character set', since it differs Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17560741389745871142noreply@blogger.com