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

[Sven Barth]

On 29.12.2013 17:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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>> 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.

Objective C support for example. Embarcadero simply stuffed it into 
their COM support while we already had the Objective Pascal 
implementation...

Regards,
Sven