Delphi XE2 Dataset field type TStringField does not support Unicode?
delphi, delphi-xe, delphi-xe2, tdataset, unicode
Solution
No, you should be examining the TWideStringField class which is for Unicode fields and the TStringField class which is for non-Unicode strings. TField is just a base class and TField.GetAsWideString is a virtual method with a fall back implementation that is overridden by descendants that are Unicode aware.
Problem
I've been looking through the TDataset class and its string fields, in Delphi XE2 and noticed that AsWideString returns a type of UnicodeString. However it gets the value from the function TField.AsString: String which in turn calls TFIeld.AsAnsiString:AnsiString. Therefore any unicode characters would be lost? Also the buffer which is passed to TDataset.GetFieldData is declared as an array of AnsiChar. Am I understanding this correctly?