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

[Juha Manninen]

Vincent Snijders kirjoitti perjantai 31 joulukuu 2010 11:30:22:
> It is the same as the new Delphi unicode support, I think. All GUI
> components support unicode out of the box, it uses UTF8 encoded
> strings.
> AFAIK Delphi uses UTF16, so in that way it is different.

... so UTF8 is also unicode?
I am still confused with all the encodings and string types.

Thanks.

Juha