[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Dec 26 00:11:23 CET 2013


Marco van de Voort schrieb:

> "As for Windows, I don't really want to use Lazarus there. The Lazarus and
>  Free Pascal teams have done excellent work, but there are downsides:
>  Unicode support in Free Pascal on Windows is still incomplete"

I wonder what exact "support" he means.

> Which hopefully makes clear that Delphi compat unicode is needed by some :-)

UTF-8 supports the same range of characters as UTF-16. When functions 
are missing, they can be added to either encoding.

Above quote only suggests to me that people with such a detailed opinion 
about "Unicode support" don't know what they really need.

DoDi





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