[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

[luiz americo pereira camara]

2014-11-24 6:29 GMT-03:00 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:

> On 11/23/2014 07:52 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, the first reports of how the unicode rtl would look like were
>> pretty scary: Total break of the string part of millions of lines of
>> code that people wrote with Lazarus since years.
>>
>>  That is why I stopped recommending Lazarus to my colleagues who are
> doing Delphi.
>
> They took a huge amount of pain to convert their software from Delphi one
> byte strings to Delphi two bytes strings. Hence they will not be pleased to
> be forced to convert back to one byte strings to be able to use Lazarus and
> some time later convert to two byte strings again once Lazarus might be
> forced to finally follow Delphi on that behalf.
>
>
If the program does not explicitely assumesa specific encoding, i.e. use
only String type and do not do low level string handling, there will be no
need to change.

I did/do convert a lot of Delphi components and can assure that most will
not need changes as is today

Luiz
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