[fpc-pascal] Unicode filenames

[Marco van de Voort]

> How does the RTL support using unicode filenames (e.g. file names that 
> cannot be represented by the ansi char set)?

As said on IRC, afaik decisions about this have been continuously postponed.

There are some problems:

- If the border condition that w9x must remain supported persists, this
  becomes a magnitude more work. A way to deal with this has to be found
  (two win32 FPC releeases, one advocated as D2..D2006 compat + w9x, one as
  NT + Unicode/Tiburon?)

- Also I have some doubts that using two different encodings is a good thing
  for a portable compiler, so a decision has to be made about that too (e.g. 
  always support UTF-8 and allow overloading with utf16 if the platform
  defaults to it)

- Do we have a non com widestring on Windows?

- Tiburon compability. It doesn't make sense to roll our own slightly
  incompatible schema. At least we should have a look at it, before we
  decide if we support it (if it can folded in the multiplatform vision and
  it is sane from a native perspective)

What are the exact plans of Lazarus in this? Is there some wiki page with
how Lazarus plans to tackle this with all multi-platform concerns? 
 
Btw I saw that Cygwin is giving up 9x support in the next release.