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

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/17/2011 10:35 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
> You can't use FPC's Copy(), Pos() etc reliably with
> UTF-8 text, because thouse RTL functions work purely on ANSI text
> (1-byte characters - speaking of String type text here) and don't know
> about multi-byte characters,
Thats the "magic" :-) . pos() does finds the correct multi-byte characters.
> combining diacritics etc.
This of course does not work, as theses "Unicode quirks" (this name was 
not introduced by me !) forces that the same visual character can be 
encoded in different ways. I don't know if it is even possible (and 
sensible) to support this at language-level.

-Michael