[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Martin schrieb:
> On 15/09/2011 19:52, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
>>> On 14/09/2011 19:17, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>>> How many users will have to deal with chars outside the Unicode BMP?
>>>
> Any app that loads a text from disk.

Again: please answer my question first: How many *users*?

> it can never know what the text contains.

The *user* may know that, and he will see the text, when loaded e.g. 
into a memo. When he wants to do more with the text, he has to choose 
the right application for the job.

Honestly, I don't understand why everybody assumes that every 
Unicode-aware application has to be a full-fledged text processor :-(

DoDi