[Lazarus] non Unicodode application

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:53:12 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

>[...]
> > even without the new UTF-8 mode.
> How to set this mode  when compiling with Lazarus  ?

See here
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_with_FPC3.0_without_UTF-8_mode

> What mode do you think is more appropriate when most work is done on 
> strings that just have no or an unknown encoding ?

If your strings don't have an encoding the compiler treats them as
default encoding and so the mode does not matter.
Your friend's application won't pass such strings to the GUI, so no
problem with the LCL.
You just have to be careful when mixing strings and widestrings (just
like Delphi), or strings with non default codepage (AFAIK Delphi 7 does
not have them, but maybe you use a package that does).

If your friend use string literals in Delphi they are encoded in system
code page. Here might be some traps.

Mattias