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

[waldo kitty]

On 2/18/2011 10:05, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Michael Schnell<mschnell at lumino.de>  wrote:
>> Of course not. It should just be renamed to prevent lots of hard to detect
>> run time problems  when used erroneously for "visual character count".
>
> And cause trouble to everyone that has been using it correctly? I
> don't think so.
>
> Plus, Lazarus already uses UTF-8 since years, people should already be
> used to Length not representing chars...

except us long time, old school newbies who are finally attempting to move from 
TP/BP to FPC/Lazarus ;)  it is a huge jump over delphi and into this fancy 
schmancy new unicode (wotz'at?) world... i won't even mention objects and GUI 
stuffings :P