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Re: UTF-8 to curent locale

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From: Asger Jorgensen
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:58
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Hi Darko

Thanks for Your answer

In article <46e54543@newsgroups.borland.com>, kiklop@fibertel.com.ar says...
> There is no need for API. VCL offers function Utf8ToAnsi in system unit 
> (that is in BDS 2006). If you have older version of BCB than you can use 
> two api's to accomplish this conversion:

I only have BCB5 pro
> 
> MultiByteToWideChar - this one converts multibyte string to unicode
> WideCharToMultiByte - this one can convert unicode to ansi
> 
> So with MultiByteToWideChar convert utf-8 to unicode and than with 
> WideCharToMultiByte convert that unicode to ansi string.

Is there realy no function that translate UTF-8 to good old ascii 
in one pass ?? I would very much like it to be fast.

Thanks in advance
Asger
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