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Widechartostring - copies a null terminated widechar string to a normal string system unit

function WideCharToString ( Source : PWideChar; ) : string; Description The WideCharToString function converts a null terminated WideChar string or array to a normal string. WideChar's are 2 bytes in size, to accomodate International character sets, such as Chinese, where the number of characters exceeds 256. Such a double byte to single byte conversion will preserve the double byte size when it cannot be mapped to a single byte. So a 10 character WideChar string will yield anything from 10 to 20 characters in the resulting string. Related commands StringToWideChar Converts a normal string into a WideChar 0 terminated buffer Example code : A simple example var wideCharArray : array[0..5] of WideChar; myString : String; begin // Set up our WideChar array wideCharArray[0] := 'H'; wideCharArray[1] := 'e'; wideCharArray[2] := 'l'; wideCharArray[3] := 'l'; wideCharArray[4] := 'o'; wideCharArray[5] := #0; // Terminates WideChar strings // Copy to a normal string myString := WideCharToString(wideCharArray); // Show what the copy gave ShowMessage(myString); end; Show full unit code Hello