[Lazarus] Any chance of changing the LCL Unicode encoding to UTF-16?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:50:29AM +0200, Martin Schreiber wrote:
>> With UCS2/utf-16 on the other hand *all* current users of MSEgui can store
>> *all* the codepoints they need in a single utf-16 word
>
> ?? Martin, can you make a formal statement about what MSEGUI now supports? I
> keep getting the feeling you only support UCS-2.


I actually asking him that exact question a few days ago.... Here is
his official reply.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: msegui and unicode support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:05:45 +0100
From: Martin Schreiber <nospam at nospam.com>
Newsgroups: public.mseide-msegui.talk
References: <efi2kml61ljp0cy.300720080212 at dxserver1>

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Does msegui still only support UCS2 or have you implemented full UTF-16
> support in later versions? Last time I checked was around msegui 1.2.
>
MSEgui doesn't care about surrogate pairs. This is no problem as long
you don't enter characters in edit widgets where the codepoint doesn't
fit into the Unicode basic multilingual plane, nothing which will happen
soon I assume...
liuzg, our Chinese user, reported no Unicode issues since a long time.
For other routines (filename handling and the like) surrogate characters
can be handled like like normal characters without problems. Although I
 doubt the usefulness of filenames with codepoints > BMP.

[....snipped irrelevant part....]

Martin

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Regards,
 - Graeme -


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