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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> > is dangerous if they are not all the same encoding. If there is any
> > mismatch, it will be converted down to default encoding.
> 
> Then the implementation is wrong. 

Wrong according to you. Not wrong according to defined Microsoft
applications.

This way of top-down thinking will turn FPC into a Java, where you are
lugging along an own platform-within-an-platform everywhere.

IMHO this is not desirable.

> > There is no utf8 on Windows.
> 
> Yep, that's why the Unicode (W) API should be used. No problem with
> UTF-8 strings there :-)

If you totally drop Delphi compatibility you can do whatever you want. But
IMHO that is more something for the Graeme's and Martin (MSEGUI's) of the
world, not Lazarus.