[Lazarus] Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Dec 22 19:58:14 CET 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > Apart from that there's not much else you can do except contribute
> > patches to help "unicode-ise" the FPC RTL...
> 
> The new AnsiStrings (with Encoding and automatic conversion) should be
> sufficient, Unicode is not required. In fact a move to a Unicode RTL 
> would require that either Lazarus is converted, too, or that 2 RTL 
> flavors (Ansi and Unicode) must be supported. Not a good idea, IMO.

Keeping UTF8 on Windows makes a majority platform seem only half supported.
Not good either. Worse, it is Delphi incompatible.





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