On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > The major issue is that "Unicode character" doesn't have a good > definition. The most likely definition is a "Unicode code point", > however, Windows uses "Unicode character" to mean a UTF-16 byte > sequence, which means that any code point above the Basic Multilingual > Plane is really composed of two "Unicode characters", which are, of > course, surrogate pairs.
Terminology can certainly be confusing at times, but I think that a Unicode character is a perfectly well-defined entity, non-withstanding the fact that it can be represented in various encodings (a utf8 sequence, a ucs4 word, a utf-16 surrogate pair, etc). _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
