[fpc-pascal] Printing unicode characters

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:02:06 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> They call that "Unicode", which is plain nonsense. In the real world, one
> can not stuff 21-bits
> into 16-bits.
>
> For heaven's sake, let's stop talking about so-called "Unicode" and
> instead use UTF-8
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTf-8> or UTF-32 <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCS-4>.
>

Good point, I read this very good article and he states unicode without
encoding is nonsense. Why not UTF-16 though? I think next to UTF-8 it’s the
most common right?


https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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