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Reference for unit 'DB' (#fcl)

TFieldDef.CharSize

Character size

Declaration

Source position: db.pas line 192

public property TFieldDef.CharSize : Word read GetCharSize;

Description

CharSize is only relevant for for string fields: it indicates the number of bytes used to represent a single character. It is calculated from the TFieldDef.CodePage property and can have the following values:

1 for single-byte string fields
2 for UnicodeString fields
4 for UTF8 strings

TFieldDef.CodePage
TFieldDef.Size		Size of the buffer needed to store the data of the field

TFieldDef.CharSize

Declaration

Description

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