Well, they cannot put the blaim on the Lazarus converter, but only on
their own ignorance with respect to porting to Lazarus.
Why ignorance? I remember someone asking here how to learn programming
with FPC/Lazarus and someone else answered that each Delphi learning
book would do. How does that fit together when such huge differences
between Lazarus and Delphi exist?
I have a feeling
that the conversion tool is bad publicity for Lazarus that it gives
people a false feeling of easy conversion. Lazarus should avoid giving
this impression.
A much better way would be to improve the converter in that it gives
hints about the different coding of strings. This would be enough.
The main problem realy is, that (some!) stings are completely omitted
when they are Ansi where UTF-8 is needed.
Yes, garbage in garbage out.
Why "garbage"? A correct and running Delphi program was converted to
Lazarus with the converter, how can it be garbage?
Jürgen Hestermann.
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