[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 15/09/2011 09:53, Michael Schnell wrote:
> If not strings, Chars do:
> 
> MyString := 'Öse';
> MyChar := MyString[1];


and to show you AGAIN how flawed your "direct index access to a
character" example is. How is that 'Öse' entered into the system.

Is the Ö a

  U+00D6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS

or

  U+004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O   with
  U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS

or

  what if the Ö was a "character" above the BMP. MyChar would only hold
  the first part (2 bytes) of a surrogate pair (4 bytes).


Oops!  You are thinking in terms of ANSI, *not* Unicode.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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