[fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 2021-03-07 om 17:38 schreef Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal:
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>> On Mar 7, 2021, at 9:31 AM, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> Probably it is not in the BMP and thus needs more position than one.
> Isn't char[1] a 2 byte wide char? Not sure I understand "more position than on" though.

Yes it is. And there are about 1114000 unicode codepoints, or about 17 
times what fits in a 2-byte wide char.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16