[Lazarus] UTF8 RTL for Windows

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/25/2014 09:39 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> The Delphi model already broke that claimed type safety, by omitting 
> conversions of RawByteString results, for speed optimization. That's 
> dangerous, because the compiler can *only* check the static type of 
> string variables, but not the dynamic encoding of their contents....
> This was clear to me just after exploring and understanding encoded 
> strings in Delphi. In FPC/Lazarus we now have a *chance* for 
> simplifications and improvements, when the new features are used in 
> the *right* way.

On that behalf I just posted a set of questions on the "FPC Unicode 
support" wiki page in the fpc-devel mailing list. Please continue this 
discussion there.


> But many arguments and opinions, presented in this thread, indicate to 
> me an yet incomplete understanding and many misunderstandings, which I 
> actually try to spot. 

See the new wiki page 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/not_Delphi_compatible_enhancement_for_Unicode_Support

-Michael