[Lazarus] lazarus 0.9.24 not working

[Dians]

Why not use a flag to state the application encoding?
then by using utf-8 to utf-16 conversion routines Lazarus could in 
theory use both
UTF-8 is now one of the most common encoding standards for Non-English 
websites, it is generally more efficient on bandwidth

Delphi compatibility is a valid point but from what I have loaded on 
both systems it is clear that Lazarus is not compatible with Delphi
The designers have done a great job but the cross platform & wider 
language support enjoyed by Lazarus comes at a price

Lazarus is far better in several respects

   1. Better cross platform graphic support
   2. Wider range of processors
   3. Wider range of operating systems
   4. Fully open source, we can modify the compiler & IDE to improve it
      much more than is possible with Delphi

Down sides

   1. Delphi has better help system
   2. Delphi supports packages
   3. Delphi has more components & packages available

Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:
> This is just a question not a request.
>
> In the recent discussion about fpc support to unicode it seems that 
> delphi compatibility is a must for fpc and since delphi will use UTF-16 
> as the main encoding in the next release, probably fpc will follow it.
>
> So, any chance of changing the LCL Unicode encoding to UTF-16?
>
> I'm asking this because i develop a component (VirtualTreeView) that 
> uses WideString/UTF-16 to support unicode and i'm planning to switch to 
> UTF-8. If LCL change to UTF-16 it will be lost of time.
>
> Luiz
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