[Lazarus] "Character" -> "Codepoint" in LazUTF8 function names

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Dec 12 16:10:23 CET 2017


On 12/12/17 14:15, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:> Agreed, but I hope nobody tries to retrofit any more IBMisms like "octet"> instead of "byte" :-)
> Where did you get the connection for IBM?AFAIK "codepoint" is not related to IBM but it is an essential part of Unicode.

I think it was IBM introduced the term no later than the 80s when people 
started using codepages. It might have been related to CUA, and it was 
used in the context of both ASCII and EBCDIC.

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