[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

>> FPC also allows to use Complex values - but nobody is forced to use such 
>> numbers without any good reason and technical (mathematical) background. 
>> The same for the use of astral Unicode characters, IMO.
> 
> IMHO you are right, but the big difference is of course that the rest of the
> whole computer industry pretty much hasn't decided to stick to complex
> values as the standard.

There exist math apps, doing computations with complex numbers, and 
there exist text processors, dealing with Unicode. But what about the 
99.9% of *other* applications?

DoDi