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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:01:47 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>[...]
> > Believe me, I use it in production without any problems: I have 
> > unicode-aware TStrings, I can read files with unicode names, I can do 
> > everything with plain FPC trunk.  
> 
> I am aware of this, I do it myself. 
> But I work on Linux, where UTF8 is the norm.
> 
> So I cannot vouch for other platforms...

It worked on Linux since years.
Since FPC 3.0 it works on Windows too.

Mattias