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

[Bart]

On 12/19/13, Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:

> Well, the same problem...
> If there is no solution (for now), I prefer using SysToUTF8/ UTF8ToSys
> because is more simpler than use WideString API and conversion to
> UnicodeString, UTF8Decode, etc. Don't you think?

It fails if any of the characters is outside the current codepage
(e.g. Chinese or Taiwanese on my system). In that case the Wide API's
do work.

Bart