In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said: > > Widestring (refcounted 2-byte type) , it is the ansistring type (1-byte > > type) that gets codepage support. > > UTF-16 needs codepages, too. > I think only the 4-byte char type (is it UTF-32) would solve all encoding > problems.
codepage<>encoding > All characters of all languages fit into 2^32 space. character<>codepoint. Anyway surrogates etc is a different problem of processing true unicode spec, and the bits that UTF32 solves are the lesser ones. (and at the expense of speed and memory) The document is a bit messy (since it was conceived before Delphi 2009 came out, and later updates for that), but http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/unicode.pdf has some details. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
