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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

> Florian Klämpfl schrieb:
>
>> Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a
>> clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do
>> things differently and how it could help my chess program initially
>> written in TP. However, nobody shared those ideas, well, they had their
>> own.
> [...]
>> For strings, I proposed, the first time ~2000 I think, to introduce
>> basically an opaque string type which can store any encoding, people
>> complained, this will be too slow (true), incompatible with old code
>> (true), incompatible with delphi (true). So it never happended. This
>> list can be continued endlessly. Lesson learned.
>
> Perhaps the Delphi developers have a look at FPC discussions and 
> innovations, and add useful features to Delphi?

That would be a first.

There have been several occasions when we had a feature first.
They have always added it differently.

Michael.