Question

I have a function that returns an HTML page from Internet, but the Cyrillic symbols are displayed with some others unknown characters.
How can I convert the text and be able to see the normal Cyrillic symbols?

I’m with Delphi 2009 and im using indy to send HTTP request and get back response from the server.
(i think i have indy9)

This is how i take the HTML page

http := TIDHttp.Create(nil);
http.HandleRedirects := true;
http.ReadTimeout := 5000; 
http.Request.ContentType:='multipart/form-data'; 
param:=TIdMultiPartFormDataStream.Create;
param.AddFormField('subcat_id','501');
param.AddFormField('reg_id','1');
text:=http.Post('example.com',param);

I don’t know if indy has any functions that gets the page with any unicode.

Answer 1

You have not given enough information, but I will try to suggest this: If possible, load the data in a Stream and then create a StringList and load it like this:

var
  MS:TMemoryStream;
  SL: TStringList;
(...)
begin
  MS:=TMemoryStream.Create;
  SL:=TStringList.Create;
  // Load your string to MS
  SL.LoadFromStream(MS, TEncoding.UTF8);
  (...)
  MS.Free;
  SL.Free;
end;

Comment if there is a problem.