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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Reinier Olislagers
<reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/12/2013 12:51, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Reinier Olislagers
>> <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 16/12/2013 12:15, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Reinier Olislagers
>>>> <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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:
>>>>> My suggestion is to replace calls to the FPC (ANSI) RTL with LCL UTF8
>>>>> equivalents in your code where possible.
>>>>
>>>> But FPC still ANSI and all read/write in FPC is ANSI. We can not
>>>> override these internal FPC's routines... and, some packages are used
>>>> by others non-GUI program and that not have dependencies to LCL.
>>>
>>> Sigh. I don't think you understood what I wrote.
>>
>> So explain better, please.
> I tried 2 times already, sorry. It's not important anyway.

Ok, no problem.

>> Sigh. I know.
>> I think you did not understand is:
>> Some packages do not work (internally) using UTF8 strings. I can
>> change all code to use UTF8 in all package and all projects... but
>> this would be a massive work.
> And my point is (unfortunately also... sigh...) that you cannot expect
> that to change magically.
> Conversion is going to be required unless and until... well I'll stop
> here, see the many U* threads on this list, the FPC one and fpc-devel.

Ok, thank you.

>>> As is customary whenever somebody mentions the magic "U" word, I'm sure
>>> you'll get a lot of responses....
>>
>> Sorry, I didn't understand... (sarcasm?)
> Yes, but not directed at you - at the reactions of this list whenever
> that word with U is mentioned ;)

Hm... Ok... thanks again.


Marcos Douglas