[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Martin Schreiber]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 11:06:00 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Martin Schreiber <mse00000 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > There are plenty of user problems with utf-8 character access and string
> > length. I assume 100% of them would be solved with utf-16.
> 
> It would solve for those writing buggy software which ignores part of
> the Unicode characters.
> 
I don't think so. If there are characters out of the BMP the "buggy" 
application will take a single out of BMP character as two unknown characters. 
No problem for Russian and German hobby programs IMHO. :)

Martin