So whatever happened to the whole PGDCE thing?

[Akira13]

@Chebmaster: I still don't understand how your filenames could possibly require unicode support. Why would anyone specifically go out of their way to use unicode characters in a filename to begin with? It makes no sense. I've also never encountered a "unicode" situation with FPC that normal "AnsiStrings" couldn't handle. For example, the following code compiles fine and displays correctly:

procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
var
  MyString: AnsiString;
begin
  MyString := '¶' + '¿' + 'ÆÆÆ' + '®®®®®®' + '¢¢¢¢¢' + 'ȾȾȾȾȾȾȾȾ' + 'ɎɎɎɎɎɎɎɎ' + 'ΏΏΏΏΏΏΏΏΏ' + 'ϼϼϼϼϼ';
  ShowMessage(MyString);
end;

Also, you do realize the people who maintain Debian are entirely unrelated to the developers of FPC/Lazarus, right?....