[Lazarus] UTF16 2 utf8

[Eduard Filipas]

as much as i do enjoy your debate what UCS2 is and what is not i still 
dont know how to proceed in my problem where data aware controls dont 
recognize my local characters...

edo

S, Hans-Peter Diettrich piše:
> Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
>> Quoted text from the Unicode wikipedia article. Note the last three 
>> lines.
>>
>> "Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most
>> commonly used encodings are UTF-8 (which uses one byte for any ASCII
>> characters, which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII
>> encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters), the now-obsolete
>> UCS-2 (which uses two bytes for each character but cannot encode every
>> character in the current Unicode standard), and UTF-16 (which extends
>> UCS-2 to handle code points beyond the scope of UCS-2)."
>
> IMO UCS-2 primarily is an ISO/IEC Unicode version, with 16 bit code 
> positions, as applicable to Unicode 1. Later Unicode versions require 
> more bits, so that UCS-4 (32 bit) had been introduced.
>
> DoDi
>
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