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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:52:04PM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > Keeping UTF8 on Windows makes a majority platform seem only half supported.
> > Not good either. Worse, it is Delphi incompatible.
> 
> You favor a special FPC and Lazarus for Windows, in addition to the 
> UTF-8 version for all other platforms?

IMHO the utf8 is not a done deal, and Delphi compatibility requires at least
also UTF16 on other platforms.

QT is utf16, and so is Cocoa. Only GTK is utf8

So I would say UTF16, and maybe, if there is demand, some can get utf8 :-)