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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2013-12-27 22:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>> Just look on e.g. the forums. All people are asking about Delphi packages.
>
> And once those Delphi packages are ported to Free Pascal, nobody needs
> Delphi any more. ;-)

Touché.

>> Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY!
>
> Converting to Free Pascal and Lazarus will *always* be easier that
> rewriting everything in C# or Java - no matter how many

I totally agree.

> incompatibilities Free Pascal might have with Delphi. The language still
> stays a lot more similar than the alternative. Yet, looking at the
> current employment market, it seems most companies opted to rewrite
> there Delphi projects in C# and Java - so they took the even harder
> route! Why? Probably due to more innovation happing in those other
> languages.

"...most companies opted to rewrite there Delphi projects in C# and Java..."

I agree. I see this here in Brazil too.
So, if the companies prefer to rewrite everything to another language,
this is another prove that people do not want compatibility with
Delphi (so much).

Regards,
Marcos Douglas