[fpc-devel] Re: Lazarus unicode support

[Michael Schnell]

  On 10/19/2010 11:26 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> Please move this branch of the discussion to the lazarus (or 
> lazarus-other) list.
>
>
This in fact is not a native Lazarus issue. The Lazarus team can't do a 
"decent" Unicode implementation, unless FPC and the RTL provide the 
appropriate infrastructure. As Delphi decided to go with dynamically 
coded strings for Unicode (what we should not discuss here) I feel that 
there is no other way to go for Lazarus.

They could have decided not to provide Unicode at all, but they - 
supposedly for good reasons -  decided to do the interim step we see 
now, which necessarily  introduces a lot of quirks for those who had 
been happy with the non-Unicode versions.

-Michael