> On Apr 6, 2015, at 2:20 PM, pscott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/6/2015 12:29 PM, Greg Parker wrote:
>> I'm not an expert here, but my understanding is that when Cocoa says 
>> "character" it usually means "UTF-16 code unit". @"🚲".length == 2, for 
>> example. Cocoa's string API designed when Unicode was still a true 16-bit 
>> character set.
> 
> That would be UCS-2 encoding. If the full Unicode character set of 1,112,064 
> characters isn't supported it should not be documented as supporting UTF-16.

No, it's not UCS-2. The API generally works as if it were manipulating an array 
of UTF-16 code units. @"🚲" displays correctly; it would not if the system were 
truly UCS-2. 


-- 
Greg Parker     [email protected]     Runtime Wrangler



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