[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Craig Peterson
<craig at scootersoftware.com> wrote:
> On Dec 25, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>> I wonder what exact "support" he means.
>
> Wonder no more:
> 1) "string" uses a Unicode encoding
> 2) AnsiString/UTF8String casts perform appropriate conversions
> 3) File APIs support Unicode filenames
> 4) Windows headers use W version by default.
> 5) LCL and RTL agree on string encoding
> 6) In a stable Lazarus and FPC release
>
> As long as the language and libraries agree on an encoding I don't
> really care whether it's UTF-8 or UTF-16.  I've also been working
> with Unicode since 2001 though, and have had to deal with plenty
> of different encodings, file formats, and API conversions in that
> time, so I don't think our usage is indicative of the average Delphi
> programmer, and I wouldn't want to speak for anyone else.

"As long as the language and libraries agree on an encoding I don't
really care whether it's UTF-8 or UTF-16"

+1

Marcos Douglas