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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 15/12/2013 20:47, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Reinier Olislagers
> <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15/12/2013 16:25, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Bart <bartjunk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> You propose include LCL in packages that not have LCL references and
> change all code of these packages to use UTF8 functions??
> 
> I think didn't understand what you proposed...
I think I don't understand what you're after? You said yourself you
don't want to pass ANSI strings!?!?

My suggestion is to replace calls to the FPC (ANSI) RTL with LCL UTF8
equivalents in your code where possible.

Apart from that there's not much else you can do except contribute
patches to help "unicode-ise" the FPC RTL...