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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Marcos Douglas wrote:

> 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?

The impact of switching to UTF-8 is less when you care about backwards compatibility.

Michael.