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

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 12/12/17 16:00, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:> I think it was IBM introduced the term no later than the 80s when people> started using codepages. It might have been related to CUA, and it was used> in the context of both ASCII and EBCDIC.
> Ok, I learn new things every day. :)

:-) It might go back at least as far as IBM's GDDM from 1979. In IBM's 
context, I think a codepoint would have represented a numeric value 
which was translated by lookup in a (single- or double-byte) codepage to 
a glyph, with the obvious gross differences depending on whether the 
codepage family was ASCII or EBCDIC. I think Unicode usage is fairly 
consistent with that, assuming that codepage lookup was brushed under 
the carpet as a manufacturer-specific detail.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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