[Lazarus] UTF16 2 utf8

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 05/05/2011 16:40, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> 
> The UTF-7/8 encodings are purely numerical compression schemes, while 
> UTF-16 (with surrogate pairs) more reflects a tree-like structure of 
> "planes", "groups", "blocks", "codepages" etc., favored by the Unicode 
> Consortium. Such a view may be interesting to font writers, which can 

My final words on this...

Not just that, the Unicode standard also defines things like
Normalization, Decomposition, Collation, Rendering, Bidirectional
Display Order, Character Properties etc.... all of which I believe UCS-2
doesn't.  All in all, Unicode is far beyond the scope of UCS-2.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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