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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:02:06 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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They call that "Unicode", which is plain nonsense. In the real world, one can not stuff 21-bits<br>into 16-bits.<br><br>For heaven's sake, let's stop talking about so-called "Unicode" and instead use UTF-8<br><<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTf-8">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTf-8</a>> or UTF-32 <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCS-4">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCS-4</a>>.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good point, I read this very good article and he states unicode without encoding is nonsense. Why not UTF-16 though? I think next to UTF-8 it’s the most common right?</div><div><br></div><br>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/">https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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