[fpc-pascal] Unicode chars losing information

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Mar 7, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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> Yes it is. And there are about 1114000 unicode codepoints, or about 17 times what fits in a 2-byte wide char.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

I thought unicode strings "just worked" but maybe that's UTF-8 and the character I want is maybe UTF-16. What are you supposed to do then? UnicodeString knows how to print the full string so all the data is there but I can't index to get characters unless I know their size.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph