[Lazarus] Mac (or other BigEndian machine) users needed to test new Utf8StringOfChar code

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Bart schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Current code for Utf8StringOfChar that I wrote (in LazUtf8 unit) may
> fail due to Utf8 -> UTF16 -> FillWord -> Utf8 conversions, which only
> work for UCS2, as Mattias pointed out to me.
> 
> I constructed a new Utf8StringOfChar function that builds UTF8 without
> conversions.
> For speed reasons it uses FillWord or FillDWord when appropriate.

Did you also test the simpler approach, replicating the pattern in one 
loop? It's independent of endianness, and can boil down to a single 
machine instruction (x86: REP MOVS).

DoDi