[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/22/2014 05:18 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Does this mean that Lazarus (new mode) ignores the OS system codepage 
> setting?
>
IMHO that would be just GREAT to allow for doing portable software. The 
RTL and LCL interface should be OS ignorant for portability. In user 
code, the user should be allowed to use the string encoding (and byte 
cont per character), he finds the most convenient for his application.

OTOH this of course does provide a decent set of  problems including but 
not limited to unnecessary conversions in certain cases.

-Michael