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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 May 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:

> 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?

I propose to let the compiler observe the BOM. 
But I don't think more is needed.

Michael.