[fpc-devel] assign constant text to widestring

[Jonas Maebe]

On 23 Oct 2008, at 13:41, Michael Schnell wrote:

>> utf-16 application shouldn't do this
>> either: it doesn't handle surrogates properly
> Right you are. For me WideString is UCS2 and not UTF16, as I regard  
> it as a sequence of WideChar so that the Unicode user code can be  
> done using WideChar and WideString. WideChar only has 16 Bits. So  
> this restrict us to Unicode Characters < $FFFF.
>
> I doubt that I ever will need to use Unicode Characters > $FFFF, but  
> of course there _are_ other projects.

I doubt that you will never need to support decomposed characters  
(such as ä being encoded as basically "a¨"). It's not that uncommon.


Jonas