On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote: > Are there any other string types with UTF8 encoding in Free Pascal? Yes. The type "String" has a default encoding of UTF-8 when you use the new Unicode support in Lazarus. See the wiki page for technical details. Juha