Free Pascal supports the type WideChar. A WideChar is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one UNICODE character in UTF-16 encoding.
A unicode character can be specified by its character value (an UTF-16 code), by preceding the ordinal value with the number symbol (#).
A normal ansi (1-byte) character literal can also be used for a widechar, the compiler will automatically convert it to a 2-byte UTF-16 character.
The following defines some greek characters (phi, omega):
Const C3 : widechar = #$03A8; C4 : widechar = #$03A9;
The same can be accomplished by typecasting a word to widechar:
Const C3 : widechar = widechar($03A8); C4 : widechar = widechar($03A9);