[Lazarus] "Character" -> "Codepoint" in LazUTF8 function names

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Dec 12 10:51:59 CET 2017


On 11/12/17 22:00, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2017-12-11 20:11, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:> I changed 
> "Character" to "Codepoint" in some LazUTF8 function names in> r56692. 
> Please take a look.> "Codepoint" is more accurate and hopefully reduces 
> confusion.
> I haven't looked at the code changes, but fully agree with the 
> sentiment. Getting the terminology correct is already a great leap 
> forward in the right direction.

Agreed, but I hope nobody tries to retrofit any more IBMisms like 
"octet" instead of "byte" :-)

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