# 2994 Locate Method Not Working with AnsiStrings that Do Not Use the System Code Page in Delphi 2009

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TDataset.Locate did not work correctly when working with Delphi 2009 and fields that contain UTF-8 or Ansi strings having different code page as the system code page. The reason was that the code in dbisamtb.pas assings KeyValues to the Value property of a field. In this case the field is a TStringField and Delphi 2009 VCL is converting the Ansi string (UTF-8 or code page encodede) to UnicodeString. This causes the locate logic to compare the the values in the database to UnicodeString when it should compare to AnsiStrings.