I have a Delphi application, which sends piece of text to a named pipe via call
SendMessageToNamedPipe(hPipe, CurMsg);
It works fine for some messages, but sending other texts leads to a crash of the application.
The only difference between normal and "crashing" messages I'm aware of is that the crashing messages contain lots of Cyrillic characters.
How should I encode them in order for the aforementioned call to be executed properly?
Update 1: Here's the implementation of SendMessageToNamedPipe
.
procedure SendMessageToNamedPipe(hPipe:THandle; msg:string);
const
OUT_BUF_SIZE = 100;
var
dwWrite : DWORD;
lpNumberOfBytesWritten : LongBool;
utf8String : RawByteString;
sendBuf: array[0..OUT_BUF_SIZE] of WideChar;
begin
utf8String := UTF8Encode(msg);
sendBuf[0] := #0;
lstrcatw(sendBuf, PChar(msg));
lpNumberOfBytesWritten := WriteFile(hPipe, sendBuf, OUT_BUF_SIZE, dwWrite, NIL);
if not lpNumberOfBytesWritten then
begin
OutputDebugString(PChar('Sending error: ' + SysErrorMessage(GetLastError)));
end
else
begin
OutputDebugString(PChar('Message sent, dwWrite: ' + IntToStr(dwWrite)));
end;
end;
Update 2: Version of the function, which seems to work.
procedure SendMessageToNamedPipe(hPipe:THandle; msg:string);
const
OUT_BUF_SIZE = 200;
var
dwWrite : DWORD;
Success : LongBool;
msgToSend : PChar;
utf8String : RawByteString;
sendBuf: array[0..OUT_BUF_SIZE-1] of WideChar;
AnsiCharString : PAnsiChar;
begin
OutputDebugString(PChar('SendMessageToNamedPipe.Length(msg): ' + IntToStr(Length(msg))));
OutputDebugString(PChar('Sending message: ' + msg));
utf8String := UTF8Encode(msg);
sendBuf[0] := #0;
lstrcatw(sendBuf, PChar(msg));
Success := WriteFile(hPipe, sendBuf, Length(sendbuf), dwWrite, NIL);
if not Success then
begin
OutputDebugString(PChar('Sending error: ' + SysErrorMessage(GetLastError)));
end
else
begin
OutputDebugString(PChar('Message sent, dwWrite: ' + IntToStr(dwWrite)));
end;
end;