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# SetMultiByteFileSystemCodePage

Set codepage used when passing strings to OS single-byte file system APIs

## Declaration

Source position: systemh.inc line 1235

`procedure SetMultiByteFileSystemCodePage(`
`CodePage: TSystemCodePage`
`);`

## Description

SetMultiByteFileSystemCodePage sets the codepage used in single-byte OS file system APIs to CodePage. The effect of this change is that the default codepage used to translate multi-byte (UTF-16) strings to single-byte codepage-aware strings used in File system APIs changes, and strings passed to the codepage-aware file system APIs will be passed using the new codepage.

This constant is not used if the file system API of the OS is multi-byte (such as on Windows).

Do not set DefaultFileSystemCodePage directly, as additional actions may need to be done when changing the code page.

## See also

DefaultFileSystemCodePage |  | Codepage to use for filenames
SetMultiByteConversionCodePage |  | Set codepage for conversions from multi-byte strings to single-byte strings
SetMultiByteRTLFileSystemCodePage |  | Set codepage used when interpreting strings from OS single-byte file system APIs