[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

[Marco van de Voort]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:10:36PM -0600, Craig Peterson wrote:
> 
> Wonder no more:
> 1) "string" uses a Unicode encoding
> 2) AnsiString/UTF8String casts perform appropriate conversions
> 3) File APIs support Unicode filenames
> 4) Windows headers use W version by default.
> 5) LCL and RTL agree on string encoding
> 6) In a stable Lazarus and FPC release
> 
> As long as the language and libraries agree on an encoding I don't really
> care whether it's UTF-8 or UTF-16.  I've also been working with Unicode
> since 2001 though, and have had to deal with plenty of different
> encodings, file formats, and API conversions in that time, so I don't
> think our usage is indicative of the average Delphi programmer, and I
> wouldn't want to speak for anyone else.

(short status update)
Most of 1-4 is done on trunk, except (4) is not default and (3) might not be
enitrely complete. Anything OO is not done (like tprocess).