[Lazarus] FPC 2.7.1 and console output

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:10:00 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

>[...]
> >> Using UTF-8 sources *and* {$codepage UTF8} cures the unusable CP_ACP 
> >> encoding of string literals, they are converted as expected in immediate 
> >> output or when assigned to any AnsiString. Other settings cannot work 
> >> with the current handling of AnsiString :-(
> > 
> > CP_ACP is usable with the DefaultSystemCodepage.
> 
> Currently AnsiUpperCase etc. will work on Windows *only* if 
> DefaultSystemCodePage matches the WinAPI CP_ACP.

Probably some other widestringmanager function have the same problem.
And some other functions have some unneeded overhead for
DefaultSystemCodePage CP_UTF8.
Maybe the paswstring can be adapted.

Mattias