"ildg" <ildg@163.com> wrote in message
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> I believe that the function does work.
> But it's not what I want.
> What I want is, I want to encode a string as "%xx%yy%zz%dd" format, that's
> what HttpEncode does. But, Http only encode it to
> old format, I want it to encode as utf-8 format.
> For example, I have a string named str that contains Chinese words. When I
> use HttpEncode(str), I get this result: %BA%BA%D7%D6+%D6%D0%CE%C4. But
> what I want is:
> %E6%B1%89%E5%AD%97+%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87.
> They are quite different, and it's generated by
> UrlEncoder.Encode(str,"utf-8") in java. So I come here for help to find
> out if there's any delphi equivalent.
>
> Thank you.
>
AFAIK, HttpEncode treats utf8 just like a normal string and encodes the
unsafe characters. You cannot use HttpEncode on a multibyte or wide string
to get a utf8 encoding.
If you in pass a wide string, the string gets converted to ansi, not utf8.
You say you have a string with Chinese characters - ansi or widestring?
MyChineseWideString is a WideString
MyMultiByteAnsiString is a String
var
encodedURL: string;
encodedURL := HttpEncode(UTF8Encode(MyChineseWideString));
or
encodedURL := HttpEncode(AnsiToUTF8(MyMultiByteAnsiString));
Regards
Ian
