[Lazarus] Delphi 2009 says goodbye to Windows 9x and WinNT 4

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
> <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does FPC/Lazarus stand regarding this?  I remember Felipe mention
> > that it is possible to support Win9x, or maybe I didn't understand him
> > correctly?
> 
> Lazarus already supports unicode in Win9x using a "best effort"
> approach since months. It's all explained in the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Unicode_Support#Guidelines
> 
> Nick answered with what can be considered a half true. Win9x do not
> understand unicode, but you could convert the string before giving it
> to it. Which leads us to consider that the real reason is that
> codegear simply does not want to support win9x.

Simple:

They are a commercial company, and there is no money to be made in win95.
Supporting win95 means more than just the unicode string, and holds back
on the feature front.

Michael.