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

[Juha Manninen]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> What tricks do you still need in 3.0.x ?

The annoying tricky part with our UTF-8 solution is the assignment of
Unicode string literals.
With UTF-8 BOM it does not work at all, as discussed here.
Without BOM it depends on string type + compiler settings in an illogical way.
We would need a more robust solution for that. Do you have ideas?

Juha