[Lazarus] Making sources compatible with Delphi (but Lazarus is priority)

Graeme Geldenhuys mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk
Wed May 3 10:52:47 CEST 2017


On 2017-05-02 09:30, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> From FPC's point of view our UTF-8 solution is a hack. 

FPC's point of view or Marco's point of view? Just curious - so what is
FPC’s “correct” solution then for using UTF-8 and the preferred
encoding? What's the alternative they offer?


[rant]
ps:
  Both FPC and Delphi is in such a messed up state when it comes to
  string and character types. It is the laughing stock of programming
  languages at the moment. At least EMBT is heading in the right
  direction with their Linux Delphi compiler - they completely removed
  AnsiString.

  FPC and Delphi can learn a huge lesson from Java and Qt in how to
  handle string and character types.
[/rant]

Regards,
  Graeme

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