[Lazarus] wiki page "Better_Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus"

[Michael Schnell]

On 04/13/2016 11:08 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> The code pages that are relevant here are only single byte code pages 
> (e.g. CP1252) or UTF-8, *never* UTF-16 as a AnsiString can not store 
> UTF-16 data.
>
I see. And using 8 bit encoding as the brand for not the explicitly 
user-defind "String" type does make sense for a compiler that is 
supposed to create executables for multiple OSes does make prefect sense.

But AFAIK, Unicode aware Delphi uses UTF16 for the not the explicitly 
user-defind "String" type. (While AFAIK, not Unicode aware Delphi can't 
handle UTF8.)

So this is not compatible to either of them. In fact I am not asking for 
such compatibility (let alone that the two Delphi variants are even more 
incompatible to each other), but we need to be aware of the issue.

-Michael