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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
<juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 2013-12-19 23:04, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>
>> 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?
>
> As Bart already mentions, the ANSI (SYS) interface does *not* support
> Unicode.
> Also, you are not be able to access long paths (longer than 255 characters)
> when using ANSI API functions.
> Therefore the [W]ide (unicode) character API functions are a must.

So, these limitations exist in Lazarus too, right?

Marcos Douglas