[Lazarus] Beyond Compare 4 built with Lazarus 1.2

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue Dec 31 10:19:33 CET 2013



On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> On 30/12/2013 22:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>> On 2013-12-30 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>> 2) What will the size in bytes be of ThousandSeparator and
>>> DecimalSeparator be? eg: fpGUI had to introduce its own versions of
>>> these, with a 4-byte max size (as per UTF-8 spec) because some locales
>>> require a 3-byte UTF-8 value.
>>
>> In the unicode RTL they will be UTF-16 characters, so 2 bytes.
>
> 2 bytes - are you sure? What about code points that don't fit in 2
> bytes? Won't they be supported?

First find a ThousandSeparator and DecimalSeparator that would actually need this.
Then we'll see.

Idle theorizing is fine for mathematics and theoritical physics (huge fan of those), 
but not here :)

Michael.




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