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

[Marc Weustink]

Juha Manninen wrote:
> 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.

Yes both are. And both are variable width, where UTF16 encodes 
characters in 16bit words and UTF8 in 8bit bytes.

For more info see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Marc