[Lazarus] [PATCH] Re: Might be a bug in lcl/lclproc.pas ConvertUTF8toUTF16()

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I've been playing with this function, and it's choking on what I believe is a valid unicode construct.
> 
> UTF-8 encoding is $EF $82 $80
> UTF-16 encoding is $F080.
> 
> ConvertUTF8toUTF16 returns trInvalidChar
> 
> Looking at the code, it does a compare
> 
> Line : 3850 if W < $D800 then // to single wide char UTF-16 char
> 
> ..however $F080 is a valid UTF-16 encoding.
> 
> Do we have any Unicode experts in the house?

Ok, so I dived into the Unicode documentation, and this patch should be valid. It certainly fixes my 
issue anyway.


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