[fpc-pascal] JSON and UTF8

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Ludo Brands wrote:

>
>> Nothing is unthinkable. The other constructs are very ugly.
>>
>> I reversed the argument default value to True. UTF8 is now
>> the default.
>>
>
> A very wise decision;)

I must be getting older :)

Seriously: when json support was written, Unicode/UTF8 support in FPC was sketchy at best.
It makes sense to change it, but backward compatibility must be preserved as much as possible.

I have added a section to

http://wiki.freepascal.org/index.php?title=User_Changes_Trunk

to notify people of this change.

Michael.