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

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 05.05.2017 12:08, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2017 10:56:41 +0100
> Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>> or work with large amount of 8-bit strings.
>> Why would you want to? Unicode supports all languages,
> Maybe there is a misunderstanding. Let me rephrase my question:
> What string do you use in Linux Delphi when working with UTF-8 strings?

Embarcadero realized they made a mistake when they disabled (yes, only 
disabled not removed) 8-byte strings from NEXTGEN compilers. UTF8String 
and RawByteString are back for all NEXTGEN compilers since 10.1. You can 
use them in Linux Delphi as well.

http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/2016/05/system-bytestrings-for-10-1-berlin/

Ondrej