We've recently started converting code from
Delphi 2007 to
Delphi 2010 and we noticed that the
TInifile looses
unicode characters when we try to save an unicode string into the file. The file is
UTF-8 encoding and when we try to save characters like
'ó',
'ç',
'á', etc., they
don't appear or some
unrecognised characters are shown into the
ini file instead of the normal ones.
If the file is ANSI encoded and we try yo use the Tinifile, it will work fine with the unicode characters but not if the ini file is converted to UTF-8.
To solve this, we can use the
TMemIniFile class.
TMemInifile has an overload for the constructor that allows you to pass the encoding used for the file. The code example to solve this is the following:
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
inifile : TMemIniFile;
desc : string;
temp : WideString;
begin
inifile := TMemIniFile.Create('C:\fileIni.ini', TEncoding.UTF8);
temp := 'óáç';
desc := string(temp);
inifile.WriteString('Section', desc, 'S');
inifile.UpdateFile;
inifile.Free;
end;
