Delphi Standard Input Output Code page

Question

Delphi 2010

When reading from file using readLn procedure, by default i get unicode string converted from code page 1251 (code page of windows).

How can i change this and read from file in other code page, in 1252 or UTF16 ?

Answer 1

Don't use ReadLn/WriteLn for new code. As suggested by Michael Madsen use TStreamReader in SysUtils.