On 31/12/2013 10:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >> On 30/12/2013 22:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >>>> On 2013-12-30 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>>> 2) What will the size in bytes be of ThousandSeparator and >>>> DecimalSeparator be? eg: fpGUI had to introduce its own versions of >>>> these, with a 4-byte max size (as per UTF-8 spec) because some locales >>>> require a 3-byte UTF-8 value. >>> >>> In the unicode RTL they will be UTF-16 characters, so 2 bytes. >> >> 2 bytes - are you sure? What about code points that don't fit in 2 >> bytes? Won't they be supported? > > First find a ThousandSeparator and DecimalSeparator that would actually > need this. > Then we'll see. > > Idle theorizing is fine for mathematics and theoritical physics (huge > fan of those), but not here :)
Well, I'm not a fan of paying lip service to specs while ignoring them, because those things can come back and bite you, but I don't particularly care as it seems any unicode [1] support will take years to materialize anyway ;) [1] the standard, not the Delphi imple... etc -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
