[fpc-devel] Unicode and UTF8String

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Marco van de Voort escreveu:
> In our previous episode, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho said:
>   
>> This is the part I like about this approach. The most likely fixed
>> encoding to be adopted would be UTF-16, and something not very nice
>> would happen to Lazarus users in UNIXes:
>>
>> LCL (UTF-8) ------> RTL (UTF-16) ---> Operating System (UTF-8)
>>
>> 2 useless conversions.
>>     
>
> Btw will the LCL remain forcedly UTF-8 ? I thought the current Lazarus
> unicode support was temporary and all options were still open, depending on
> the outcome of FPC unicode support options?

I asked this once and no one did an affirmative. I hope this gets clear 
soon, to avoid problems with code of third part LCL developers (like me).

Luiz