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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:52:48 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

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

FPC observes the BOM. Same as Delphi.

I wonder if it would help if FPC would store UTF-8 string literals as
UTF-8 and how much work that is.

Mattias