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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:47:09 -0200
Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> 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:
> >>> 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?
> 
> You propose include LCL in packages that not have LCL references and
> change all code of these packages to use UTF8 functions??

Note:
The Lazarus UTF8 functions are in the package LazUtils.
You don't need to use the LCL (nor LCLBase) if you only need the
UTF8 functions.

Mattias