[Lazarus] Does Lazarus support a complete Unicode Component Library?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> Op 2011-02-14 20:03, Jürgen Hestermann het geskryf:
>> Do you mean that the compiler should convert the strings as needed in
>> the background (as between different integer types and/or floats) so
>> that you can call ListBox1.Items.Add(x) with x beeing UTF8string or
>> UTF16string or...?
> 
> Yes, but in reality how often would such conversions happen? TStringList
> (used inside a TListBox) would use UnicodeString types. The encoding of
> that type would default to whatever platform you compiled on. ie: under
> Linux it would default to UTF-8, and under Windows it would default to
> UTF-16

You realize the problems, that may result from the different char type 
of such an target-specific string type?

IMO such strings should be encapsulated in a (polymorphic) class, that 
only allows for char-type independent operations.

DoDi