Hi, I was surfing wikipedia and I found a good reason why not to use UCS-2. It seams to be prohibited to distribute software in mainland china that only partially supports the chinese characters (like is the case for UCS-2).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB18030 "In a move of historic significance for software supporting Unicode, the PRC decided to mandate support of certain code points outside the BMP. This means that software can no longer get away with treating characters as 16 bit fixed width entities (UCS-2). Therefore they must either process the data in a variable width format (such as UTF-8 or UTF-16), which are the most common choices, or move to a larger fixed width format (such as UCS-4 or UTF-32). Microsoft made the change from UCS-2 to UTF-16 with Windows 2000." Of course, if your don't plan on distributing software on China, this is irrelevant, but a general purpose library needs to take this into account. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
