On 2017-05-04 15:56, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > I have seen comments saying that treating UTF-16 as fixed width > encoding is OK because the characters outside BMP are so rare. It is > like saying that a buggy spreadsheet app is OK because it calculates > the sums wrong only sometimes. IMO such people should not do > programming.
+1 I purchased a commercial text editor renowned for having excellent Unicode support - at least that is what ALL the reviews said. Umm yeah, to my disappointment it internally uses UTF-16 (because it is written in Delphi), and treats UTF-16 as 2-byte fixed width! WTF! > I have not seen any feedback or comments about LazUnicode so far. I > guess it means that nobody uses it. :( You made me curious, so I want to take a look. Hopefully it doesn’t depend too heavily on the rest of LCL, so I’ll be able to use it in other projects of mine. Regards, Graeme -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
