[fpc-devel] Re: enumerators

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/17/2010 01:20 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>
> Surrogate pairs have nothing to do with Mac OS X. Surrogate pairs are 
> required when encoding any codepoint in UTF-16 whose UTF32 value is >= 
> $10000.
In fact I was not aware of the UTF-16 coding scheme. I _supposed_ it 
would work similar as UTF-8 (highest bit set => 32 bit value composed 
from the 31 remaining bits of this and the next word and bit 31 reset) 
and thus could be decoded algorithmically. Seemingly I was wrong and a 
huge table is needed to decode UTF16.

But in fact we have just been discussing UTF-8. If  here, surrogates 
are  unnecessary, and thus using them seems "funny" to me.

-Michael