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TFieldDef.CharSize

Character size.

Declaration

Source position: db.pas line 202

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		System code page for the values in string and wide string field types.
TFieldDef.Size		Size of the buffer needed to store the data of the field.

TFieldDef.CharSize

Declaration

Description

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