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

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> 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.

Wrong, or better *broken*, with regards to expected results.

> Not wrong according to defined Microsoft
> applications.

Where do you see Microsoft applications using Ansi strings, nowadays?


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

That's what FPC and Lazarus do already: they assume an UTF-8 
environment, till now. That's okay for all targets execpt Windows, where 
a UTF-8/16 conversion is required on the app-WinAPI boundary.

DoDi