[Lazarus] Any chance of changing the LCL Unicode encoding to UTF-16?

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 11.31:29 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Martin Schreiber <fpmse at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > manipulation is often used and often the assumption codepoint = storage
> > unit simplifies the task a lot. All current users of MSEgui can take that
>
> Which then tells me that if you one day decide to update MSEgui from
> UCS-2 to UTF-16, all your users applications have potential problems.
> Like the old saying goes....  "Assumption is the cause of all major
> f*ckups! Never assume anything."   ;-)
>
There will be no problems if the used codepoints are from the BMP only. I 
don't expect that a business application which is developed for the European 
market for example suddenly has to work with scripts of dead languages or 
ancient Chinese names.

Martin