Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-28 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Am 2013-12-28 14:09, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: > The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting > usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches > delphi leaves open. What niches? It seems you want a possibly exact clone so where are niches? And what is the

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-28 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 28.12.2013 16:40, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann: > Am 2013-12-28 14:09, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >> The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting >> usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches >> delphi leaves open. > > What niches? If you can/want affor

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 29.12.2013 10:04, schrieb Martin Schreiber: > On Saturday 28 December 2013 16:40:12 Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >> Am 2013-12-28 14:09, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >> >> > The people keeping FPC alive are >> > those interested in Delphi compatibility. >> >> That seems to be the bottom line which mak

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Saturday 28 December 2013 16:40:12 Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Am 2013-12-28 14:09, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: > > > The people keeping FPC alive are > > those interested in Delphi compatibility. > > That seems to be the bottom line which makes any discussion useless. > Don't write any opinions a

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Florian Klämpfl schrieb: Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do things differently and how it could help my chess program initially written in TP. However, nobody shared those ideas, well, they h

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Florian Klämpfl schrieb: Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do things differently and how it could help my chess program initially written in

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Sven Barth
On 29.12.2013 17:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Florian Klämpfl schrieb: Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do things differently and how it

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: Perhaps the Delphi developers have a look at FPC discussions and innovations, and add useful features to Delphi? That would be a first. There have been several occasions when we had a feature first. They have always added it differently. Well, would they have ad

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

2013-12-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 05:37:01PM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > That would be a first. > > > > There have been several occasions when we had a feature first. > > They have always added it differently. > > Well, would they have added it without such an inspiration? That already assumes