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Delphi Error - W1063 Widening given AnsiChar constant ('%s') to WideChar lost information - Developer Publish

Delphi Error – W1063 Widening given AnsiChar constant (‘%s’) to WideChar lost information

Delphi Compiler Error

W1063 Widening given AnsiChar constant (‘%s’) to WideChar lost information

Reason for the Error & Solution

Some characters in an AnsiChar constant might not be represented in Unicode. Data can be lost with assignments and typecasts involving MBCS characters and strings where one AnsiChar might represent only a portion of a letter.