On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:55:48 -0200
Marcos Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Am 2013-12-19 23:04, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
> >
> >> Well, the same problem...
> >> If there is no solution (for now), I prefer using SysToUTF8/ UTF8ToSys
> >> because is more simpler than use WideString API and conversion to
> >> UnicodeString, UTF8Decode, etc. Don't you think?
> >
> > As Bart already mentions, the ANSI (SYS) interface does *not* support
> > Unicode.
> > Also, you are not be able to access long paths (longer than 255 characters)
> > when using ANSI API functions.
> > Therefore the [W]ide (unicode) character API functions are a must.
> 
> So, these limitations exist in Lazarus too, right?

The file functions with UTF8 in name use internally the W functions
under Windows.

Mattias

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