[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
> >> Unicode users have no use for an char type, instead they have to use
> >> substrings for every logical character.  A Unicode BMP user could be happy
> >> with a 2-byte char, of course, at his own (low) risk.
> > 
> > Probably. But while a good point for a application builder based in the
> > West, it is IMHO not acceptable to cut corners in the unicode implementation
> > in system and development tools.
> 
> FPC also allows to use Complex values - but nobody is forced to use such 
> numbers without any good reason and technical (mathematical) background. 
> The same for the use of astral Unicode characters, IMO.

IMHO you are right, but the big difference is of course that the rest of the
whole computer industry pretty much hasn't decided to stick to complex
values as the standard.