[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Marcos Douglas B. Santos]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Juha Manninen via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> Unicode everywhere and you using AnsiString and doing everything...
>> Now I'm confused.
>
> Yes, please read:
>  http://wiki.freepascal.org/Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus
> I have advertised it so much that some people are already irritated,
> but maybe you missed it so far.

Thanks. I know about this page... unfortunately looks like it is not
enough, since many others still complain.

>> This is a ugly trick... but I understood what you mean.
>
> This was about the explicit temporary UnicodeString variable for
> WinAPI call parameters.
> No, it is not ugly, the code remains 100% compatible with Delphi.
> Please remember also that direct WinAPI call are not needed in
> cross-platform code.

This thread is not only about WinAPI. I have this problem because I
need to use a Windows 3rd Lib, which uses WideString.

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas