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[Reinier Olislagers]

On 31/12/2013 10:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 
>> On 30/12/2013 22:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>>> On 2013-12-30 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>> 2) What will the size in bytes be of ThousandSeparator and
>>>> DecimalSeparator be? eg: fpGUI had to introduce its own versions of
>>>> these, with a 4-byte max size (as per UTF-8 spec) because some locales
>>>> require a 3-byte UTF-8 value.
>>>
>>> In the unicode RTL they will be UTF-16 characters, so 2 bytes.
>>
>> 2 bytes - are you sure? What about code points that don't fit in 2
>> bytes? Won't they be supported?
> 
> First find a ThousandSeparator and DecimalSeparator that would actually
> need this.
> Then we'll see.
> 
> Idle theorizing is fine for mathematics and theoritical physics (huge
> fan of those), but not here :)

Well, I'm not a fan of paying lip service to specs while ignoring them,
because those things can come back and bite you, but I don't
particularly care as it seems any unicode [1] support will take years to
materialize anyway ;)

[1] the standard, not the Delphi imple... etc