[fpc-devel] UTF-8 string literals

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.05.2017 16:03 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> > 1. When using a character outside BMP FPC stops with:
> > Error: UTF-8 code greater than 65535 found
> > For example:
> > const Eyes = '👀';
>
> I copy a related post from Lazarus list by myself and Sven Barth.
> It belongs here:
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Sven Barth via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> > That is mainly due to the compiler not supporting surrogate pairs for
the
> > UTF-8 -> UTF-16 conversion. If it would support them, then there
wouldn't be
> > a problem anymore...
>
> That is a serious bug. Getting codepoints right is the absolute
> minimum requirement for Unicode support. Surrogate pairs are the
> UTF-16 equivalent of multi-byte codepoints in UTF-8.
>
> Now I understand this was not caused by our UTF-8 run-time switch
> "hack". It is a plain bug in FPC.
> Is there a plan to fix it?

Now it is fixed :D (revision 36116; maybe we should merge that to fixes
once I or someone else tested a big endian target)

Regards,
Sven
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