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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:15:44AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > of such an target-specific string type?
> 
> Please do share your thoughts...
> 
> I must add, that I would be very surprised if Embarcadero doesn't use
> native encoded string types for the "unicode string" support in the
> upcoming Delphi under Windows (UTF-16), Linux (UTF-8), Mac (UTF-8) etc..
> I'm not 100% sure about the default Mac encoding, but seeing that it
> comes from FreeBSD, I would guess UTF-8 there too.

My guess is that they will use UTF-16 everywhere. Simply because they have
it, always focus on keeping stuff running with minimal options instead of
choosing the most long term portable solution and QT is also UTF-16
oriented.