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

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 03.05.2017 11:03, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> I am puzzled why there were so many misleading and confusing replies,
> also from knowledgeable Lazarus developers.
> Remember, the question was about making sources compatible with Delphi.
> The person (Marcos Douglas) did not know details of how strings work
> in Delphi and Lazarus.
> Now we finally have a system that allows (more or less) compatible
> code when using Unicode. Why was it not even mentioned by you guys?
>
> For example:
>
> Ondrej Pokorny wrote:
>> Speaking from my experience, the only approach (not only the best one but
>> the only one) is not to use characters above #255.
> Nonsense. Full Unicode is supported.

Not if you need pre-unicode Delphi support :)

(Well, Marcos didn't specify what Delphi version he wants to target but 
he stated "If Delphi sources don't use UTF8 [...]", which applies to 
pre-unicode Delphi versions.)

Ondrej