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

[Marcos Douglas B. Santos]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:59 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On 2017-05-03 01:21, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
>> Sorry about that. I stopped using Delphi at version 7, that uses ANSI.
>> I thought that Delphi nowadays was using UTF16.
>
> They (Delphi) loves to follow Microsoft. Files are stored in UTF-8 (this
> is the norm), but they use UTF-16 internally.
>
> Lazarus stores files in UTF-8 and uses UTF-8 internally.
>
> Some background info
> ====================
> UTF-16 was the first encoding implementation for Unicode - at a time
> when they thought 2-bytes will be big enough for everything. They were
> wrong. So then they invented UTF-8 to solve the problem. But by that
> time Microsoft already standardised on UTF-16, so Delphi followed suite.
> Linux, FreeBSD etc saw the light and used UTF-8 instead.

Ok, thank you for these informations.

best regards,
Marcos Douglas