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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 05.05.2017 um 13:35 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus:
> On 2017-05-05 12:17, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus wrote:
>> I wonder if it would help if FPC would store UTF-8 string literals as
>> UTF-8 
> 
> Yeah, that would be the logical thing to do. 

Why? What makes a string literal UTF-8?

> FPC not doing that is what
> really confused me.

You have to distinuish between source encoding and string encoding.