[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2013-12-28 11:20, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
 >> file API for example must be implemented in the frameworks.
 > I think this is an option even in FPC and Lazarus, ie, I see people,
 > on the future, creating your own "RTL" because FPC and Lazarus do not
 > agree about Unicode.  :-)

Yes, I already started building my own file management routines
mainly because I was never sure about the string encoding/type
when using the RTL functions.

The current mismanagement regarding strings is a real pain.
Even when looking into documentation there is no information about
which string encoding the routines use/need.
For example, not a single word about string encoding here:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/findfirst.html
How can this documentation be used for programming?
The most effective way to find out seems by trial-and-error.
Not very inviting for programmers.