UnicodeFormat versus Format

[rchastain2]

Hello MSE friends.

Do you understand why my french text isn't correctly displayed in the attached example?

It's a program that says how many days you have lived, after you enter your birth date.

Here are the interesting lines:

    ed_result.appendrow(unicodeformat('Nombre julien de votre date de naissance : %d', [n1]));
    ed_result.appendrow(unicodeformat('Nombre julien de la date courante : %d', [n2]));
    ed_result.appendrow(unicodeformat('Vous avez vécu %d - %d = %d jours', [n2, n1, n2 - n1]));

Where ed_result is a ttextedit.

If I replace unicodeformat with format, I get compiler warnings, but... the text is correctly displayed!

days-260328.zip

[fredvs]

Hum, I dont know...

And using formatmse() from mseformatstr.pas unit there is same wrong char like with unicodeformat

ed_result.appendrow(formatmse('Vous avez vécu %d - %d = %d jours', [n2, n1, n2 - n1]));

[rchastain2]

Thank you Fred. I didn't know these functions.

[rchastain2]

The option -Fcutf8 solves the issue! I understand now why it is in the default options. (Even if I don't know exactly what it does.)

This also solves the issue: {$CODEPAGE utf-8} or {$CODEPAGE utf8}