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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 06:13:32PM +0100, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> > FPC's context.
>> > These components do not use Lazarus' routines and that is the BIG
>> > problem. I need to "remember" in pass only ANSI strings for these
>> > components as remember to convert the component's output string
>> > results to use in Lazarus.
>>
>> Why not just include a project reference to LCLBase (IIRC that should be
>> enough) and just always use the LCL units until FPC catches up?
>
> FPC 2.7.x can compile the windows unit in unicode (UTF16) mode. Most system and
> sysutils file related routines are already unicode (UTF16 with Rawbytestring
> overload).

So FPC 2.7.x can compile the windows unit in unicode (UTF16) mode. But
how it will work with Lazarus that uses UTF-8? Lazarus will not to
change to UTF-16 -- only for Windows -- then everything will stay the
same to Windows programmers?

Thanks,
Marcos Douglas