[Lazarus] Unicode support enabled for win32 with fpc 2.2.1 and higher

[Lee Jenkins]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> wrote:
>>  Sorry to be so ignorant on the subject, are you saying the calls to RTL
>>  fileutils need to have the "strings" cast to UTF-8 somehow?
> 
> I just made a small wiki guide:
> 
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support#Instructions_for_users
> 

Excellent entry, Felipe.  Just to be sure that I am not off base, the following 
would have to the case?

var
   lString1, lString2: string;
   lDate: TDateTime;
begin
   lDate := Now;
   lString1 := 'My %s string';
   lString2 := Format(UTF8ToAnsi(lString1), UTF8ToAnsi('Sample'));
end;

Won't that break Delphi compatibility in many places?  Again, my apologies as I 
try to grasp the concepts here.

Thanks for your patience.

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Warm Regards,

Lee

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