[Lazarus] Replacing Delphi function calls with FCL/LCL functions by converter

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
>> Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
>> I just wonder why special UTF8 functions are required at all. From the 
>> user VP the use of UTF-8 arguments should not deserve different 
>> procedures, overloaded procedures should be sufficient if ever required. 
> 
> I don't think so. It just opens a can of worms. The user will believe 
> that there is no need to pay attention to encoding, the compiler will do 
> it all for him.

This care only applies to non-Unicode strings, that's why I suggested an 
Encoding flag for just these files. Conversion into UTF-8 or Widestring 
is lossless, any other conversion should require an explicit encoding.

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