Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
ChatGPT is saying I can print unicode scalars like that but i donβt see
it works and no compiler warnings even. Did it make this up or did I do
something wrong?
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', #$1F496); // π
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', WideChar($1F496)); // π
What people call "Unicode", even compiler manuals, is not "Unicode". I repeat it again and again,
it is not "Unicode" but so-called "Unicode". Microsoft, and those who want to be compatible with
it, use UTF-16 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16> treated as if it were UCS-2
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set>
They call that "Unicode", which is plain nonsense. In the real world, one can not stuff 21-bits
into 16-bits.
For heaven's sake, let's stop talking about so-called "Unicode" and instead use UTF-8
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTf-8> or UTF-32 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCS-4>.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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