[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Martin]

On 16/09/2011 02:49, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> 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*?

Are your trying to prove your point by answering questions, that can not 
be answered ( I don't even know how many users use FPC) ?
If you need to go that way, that rather proves the weakness of your point.

My guess more than 90% of all apps deal with some form of user input [1]?
So the answer is more than 90% of the users/developers/apps.


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[1]
Even if the user input does not always contain such data, even if the 
user input in most cases does not contain such data. The point is the 
user input can contain such data (even if by accident/unintentional). As 
for writing an app, if it *can* happen, then the app *must* be able to 
deal with it.
So for any application: even a 0.0001% chance that it will happen, means 
the app must 100% deal with it.

That is unless you document: "if any of the input contains ..., then 
your app will [crash|fail| display nonsense]" => because of course if a 
crash is documented, it isn't a bug, it becomes a feature ;)