[fpc-devel] Unicode resource strings

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Tue Aug 21 00:26:22 CEST 2012


Ivanko B schrieb:
> No, Unicode is large than UCS-2. Also about your "alien language"
>  comment. Unicode includes code points not just for spoken languages,
>  but for anything that can be written. eg: musical notes, scientific
>  symbols, advanced math symbols, map glyphs, smiley faces (can be used
>  in in email's, IM programs etc without embedded images), braille etc
> ========
> They all have already been present in UCS-2, AFAIK. Do You means
> possible extensions in the future ? Are they really possible ?

UCS2 is nowadays known as the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane) of full 
Unicode. Have a look at the full Unicode codepages, what is and what is 
not part of the BMP.

DoDi




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