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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 15/12/2013 16:25, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So for basic stuff all this is already taken care of.
> 
> Only in Lazarus' context... but I have some components that is only
> FPC's context.
> These components do not use Lazarus' routines and that is the BIG
> problem. I need to "remember" in pass only ANSI strings for these
> components as remember to convert the component's output string
> results to use in Lazarus.

Why not just include a project reference to LCLBase (IIRC that should be
enough) and just always use the LCL units until FPC catches up?