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@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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