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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:55:48 -0200
Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:

> 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?

The file functions with UTF8 in name use internally the W functions
under Windows.

Mattias