On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > The FPC units use UnicodeString (UTF16), the lazarus units use UTF8. > If the end result is used excluively in UTF8 strings, the lazarus version > may be > faster as there will be less conversions. Thank you. Marcos Douglas