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

[John]

On 21/02/2011 6:09 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Introducing yet another compiler mode also doesn't seem like the way to
> go. FPC is already complex enough. The String type simply needs to
> evolve to Unicode support, just like it did from ShortString to
> LongString. A natural evolution. This should probably be something
> included in both ObjFPC and Delphi compiler modes, but again, I only
> every work with ObjFPC mode.
PLEASE don't do this.  I don't need Unicode support, and I DON'T want to 
have to worry about its complexities.  Just leave a compiler mode or 
switch that lets me keep "string"  as LongString and I will be happy, 
whatever happens with unicode.  And, as far as I understand, you can 
still set string = shortstring with a compiler switch, so leaving a 
compiler switch for unicode strings would be "just like it did from 
ShortString to LongString".

cheers,
John Sunderland