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

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/17/2011 02:56 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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> What's simply nonsense with UTF-8/16 strings :-(
Of course right now it is. But this is what average programmers are used 
to and what we will see in tons of legacy code that might one day is 
needed top be compiled with a new version of Lazarus.
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> Length() since ever returned the number of *physical* elements.
Length() since ever returned the number of *visible* characters (until 
Unicode was introduced to Lazarus :).
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>> We obviously  would need a UnicodeChar Type that holds the 32 Bit 
>> encoding.
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> Iff we ever want to support such functionality.
Why should we not support a Unicode Character Type ?
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> The big mess starts with combinations of codepoints. No problems as 
> long as the RTL functions deal with the physical storage of the 
> codepoints, and nothing else.
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But this is a quite lame excuse for not dealing with ("visual") Unicode 
characters at all.

-Michael