[Lazarus] GB18030 support in Lazarus
Mattias Gaertner
nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Fri Oct 16 11:53:23 CEST 2015
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:19:45 +0100
Tony Whyman <tony.whyman at mccallumwhyman.com> wrote:
> "Work": It was intended as a general question as I am trying to
> understand where the differences are between UTF8 and GB18030, and
> whether there is explicit support in Lazarus for GB18030, or if it is a
> case of "Lazarus should support GB18030 because it supports UTF8".
The latter.
> In terms of "work", if I use functions such as UTF8Length and
> ValidUTF8String on a GB18030 string should they always work, or are
> there exceptions?
They only check the encoding. They don't check for codepoints, which are
not yet defined by the Unicode Standard.
> I am less concerned with character set conversions at present.
Mattias
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