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Report #: 67271

Status: Closed

IOTAEditBlock.Text returns corrupted UTF-8 instead of the declared string/UnicodeString type

Project: Delphi

Build #: 12.0.3170.16989

Version: 12.0

Submitted By: Erik Berry

Report Type: Basic functionality failure

Date Reported: 9/28/2008 3:47:35 PM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 267296

Resolution: Fixed (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 12.0.3273.18681

Duplicate of: None

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Description

IOTAEditBlock.Text is declared to return the selection as a string/UnicodeString, but it returns something much closer to each byte of a UTF-8 encoding of the selection as a separate character, so most characters end up corrupted.

Ideally, this function would convert the edit block's bytes into a valid string/UnicodeString, so the implementation matches the declaration.

Steps to Reproduce:

Open attached package, click install
Type/paste any unicode or high-ASCII character into a source editor (example: À, or unicode char U+0246)
Select that single character
Help, Execute Wizard

Expected: ShowMessage dialog with just the selected character in the message
Actual: Currupt string shows instead

Workarounds

None

Attachment

TestEditBlock.zip

Comments

Chris Hesik (Embarcadero) at 12/12/2008 9:31:45 AM -

This has the same root cause as QC #67596

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