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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Florian Klämpfl
<florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 28.12.2013 13:02, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> Am 28.12.2013 11:01, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> And you think they would switch instead to some marginal OSS language
>>> which is compatible to nothing and nobody knows? C# and Java are used
>>> because they provide a huge user base (user in the sense of programmers
>>> knowing it) and being developed by huge companies so people expect their
>>> code base has a future.
>>
>> I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java
>> instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If
>> they care, why they would be leaving Delphi?
>
> If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a
> marginal oss compiler.

So you're saying that FPC cannot survive without Delphi?


Marcos Douglas