On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:53:38PM -0200, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> > If you totally drop Delphi compatibility you can do whatever you want. But >> > IMHO that is more something for the Graeme's and Martin (MSEGUI's) of the >> > world, not Lazarus. >> >> Ok... but if FPC, on Windows, will be UTF-16 and Lazarus continues >> using UTF-8 what is the difference? > > Well, currently, Lazarus has no other choice, since the unicode FPC is not > ready. (only up to classes level). > > This alone means that the current uncertainty will persist at least several > years.
:((( >> This approach is not like Delphi. It has the RTL and VCL using the >> same encode... FPC RTL and LCL will continue "fighting"! :( > > I always considered the UTF8 choice of Lazarus a temporary solution till FPC > caught up with Delphi. I think Lazarus team did not think the same. > The current situation really worries me, since at work I invested in > FPC/Lazarus in the assumption that compatibility would increase, not > decrease. If you are worried, imagine all of us! ;-) Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
