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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:43:16PM +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > Fact is that the extensions of FPC are used much less than the Delphi
> > compatibility aspect.
> 
> And would you mind sharing how you came to that conclusion? Can you
> share the data on that research?

Just look on e.g. the forums. All people are asking about Delphi packages.
 
> >From my personal experience of using FPC since 2004-2005, there is NO
> need to have support for two compilers (Delphi & FPC) in a single
> project

Yes, but we all know you are a special case :-)

Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY!