Re: Printing unicode characters
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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On Dec 1, 2024 at 2:02:06 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal < [email protected]> wrote: > 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>. > Good point, I read this very good article and he states unicode without encoding is nonsense. Why not UTF-16 though? I think next to UTF-8 it’s the most common right? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal