[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

Juha Manninen juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 12:01:31 CET 2014


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
> 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.

See the request from Mattias :
"Please test and tell what you find out."

Michael Schnell and others, let's keep this thread in a more congrete level.
You can start another philosophical thread about how strings should be
in a perfect world.

Juha




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