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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:

>> I simply can't see myself moving past FPC 2.6.4 at this point. FPC 3.x just doesn't make any sense.
>
> AFAIK you are using UTF-8 in AnsiString in FPC 2.6.4. That works in
> many cases, because of double fooling the compiler. This trick does not
> work on Windows with RTL file functions though. 
> The good news is that the same trick works in FPC 3.0. And with some new
> tricks it is now possible to make the RTL file functions support UTF-8.
> Of course it would be nicer, if we don't need tricks to get Unicode.

What tricks do you still need in 3.0.x ?

As far as I know, you don't need any tricks to work with unicode filenames
or output in 3.0.2. Maybe with exception of TStrings and TFileStream.

Michael.