[Lazarus] Does Lazarus support a complete Unicode Component Library?

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Feb 17 13:48:37 CET 2011


Michael Schnell schrieb:

>> combining diacritics etc.
> This of course does not work, as theses "Unicode quirks" (this name was 
> not introduced by me !) forces that the same visual character can be 
> encoded in different ways. I don't know if it is even possible (and 
> sensible) to support this at language-level.

Right, it depends on the expectations of the user, which combinations 
should be treated as single or multiple logical characters. This in fact 
is another (third) level of Unicode text manipulation :-(

See also my remarks on logical character positions, in a mix of LTR and 
RTL sequences.

DoDi





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