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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:41:09 -0200
>> Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>> So, nothing will change for Lazarus users after the new FPC release.
>>
>> I do hope that something will change after a new FPC release. :)
>
> Touché  :)

I would like to understand: Why Java, .Net and others use UTF-16 as
default encode and why Lazarus team chose UTF-8?

Thanks,
Marcos Douglas