[fpc-pascal] FPC 3 regression: cannot use TStringList for UTF-8 data any more?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Mon, 04 Apr 2016:
>
>> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> 
> [add LCL UTF-8 helper units to FPC]
>>> Though it could probably be added as quick as in FPC 3.0.2. It's simply
>>> two new units that need to be explicitly used by somebody to have any
>>> affect, so it will not break existing code otherwise [if not used].
>> 
>> They should at least be renamed, to avoid confusion.
>> 
>> Other than that, I personally see no objections.
>
> I do: it's more units that we have to maintain, process bug reports and 
> feature requests for, etc (or, in case they are supposed to remain copies of 
> the Lazarus units, then it's extra work keeping them in sync and given the 
> non-synchronised release cycles, they will almost never be in sync). We 
> already have plenty of work with our own code.

And that is why I wrote 'personally' :-)

Michael.