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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2013-12-27 17:11, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>> Some want to make FPC/Lazarus into a (possibly exact) clone of
>> Delphi (which means to follow every sh*t that is and will be put into this product)
>> and others (like me) hope for a more Pascal like programming environment
>> which at least avoids future (maybe even removes existing) obscurity
>> crept into Pascal with Borland/Embarcadero.
>
> Yeah, and I wonder what is the plans for the Free Pascal project, now
> that Embarcadero is changing the compiler and language - specifically
> for mobile platforms. EMBT are introducing even more sh*t - as you put
> it. ;-)  Enhancements for Desktop or Web development are getting very
> little attention these days by EMBT.

Hmm...
Maybe Martin Schreiber saw a dark future and has already taken the
initiative to keep the true living legacy.  :-)

Marcos Douglas