On 2017-12-12 19:52, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:
It might go back at least as far as IBM's GDDM from 1979.
It's a real shame that generation of extremely talented developers
disappeared without anybody of equal talent taking their place. IBM used
to be a software power-house. Or ma
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 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 bo
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus
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 da
On 12/12/17 14:15, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:>
Agreed, but I hope nobody tries to retrofit any more IBMisms like "octet"> instead of
"byte" :-)
Where did you get the connection for IBM?AFAIK "codepoint" is not related
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus
wrote:
> Agreed, but I hope nobody tries to retrofit any more IBMisms like "octet"
> instead of "byte" :-)
Where did you get the connection for IBM?
AFAIK "codepoint" is not related to IBM but it is an essential part of Unicode.
Juh
On 11/12/17 22:00, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
On 2017-12-11 20:11, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:> I changed
"Character" to "Codepoint" in some LazUTF8 function names in> r56692.
Please take a look.> "Codepoint" is more accurate and hopefully reduces
confusion.
I haven't looked at t
On 2017-12-11 20:11, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:
I changed "Character" to "Codepoint" in some LazUTF8 function names in
r56692. Please take a look.
"Codepoint" is more accurate and hopefully reduces confusion.
I haven't looked at the code changes, but fully agree with the
sentiment. Getti
I changed "Character" to "Codepoint" in some LazUTF8 function names in
r56692. Please take a look.
"Codepoint" is more accurate and hopefully reduces confusion.
It was discussed in forum and I agree with the importance of using
correct terms.
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,39
