> 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
