[Lazarus] UTF8String and UTF8Delete

[Juha Manninen]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:38 PM,  <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
> especially those readers from the ancient past (TP/BP days) who are trying
> to catch up to the modern future...

LCL has supported UTF-8 for > 10 years. As a long time Lazarus user
you should know it.
For most cases things did not change very much. Earlier you had to use
the explicit UTF8...() functions, now you don't need them. Things are
better!

Usage of UTF-8 multi-byte codepoints is explained here :
 http://wiki.freepascal.org/UTF8_strings_and_characters

Juha