[Lazarus] Unicode branch

[Michael Schnell]

I just have been told that Embarcadero plans to do away with the stuff 
fpc is just implementing in the "Unicode branch" and is on the verge to 
change to a completely new String type that is
  - UTF-16-only,
  - Zero-Based, and
  - immutable.
And thus completely incompatible with any "String" Type ever known in 
Pascal.

So
  - why do we discuss compatibility at all ?
  - do we like this (rather complex and not at all "straight forward") 
String type that much that it is viable to implement, debug and decently 
document this library ?

-Michael