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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 28.12.2013 11:01, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> So, if the companies prefer to rewrite everything to another language,
>> this is another prove that people do not want compatibility with
>> Delphi (so much).
>
> And you think they would switch instead to some marginal OSS language
> which is compatible to nothing and nobody knows? C# and Java are used
> because they provide a huge user base (user in the sense of programmers
> knowing it) and being developed by huge companies so people expect their
> code base has a future.

I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java
instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If
they care, why they would be leaving Delphi?

Regards,
Marcos Douglas