Michael Schnell <[email protected]> hat am 18. Februar 2011 um 11:23
geschrieben:

> On 02/18/2011 11:01 AM, Marc Weustink wrote:
> >
> > Nope, from day 1 of lazarus, Length() returned the number of
> > *physical* elements. Only in some cases this happened to be the number
> > of *visible* characters.
> Of course you are right, but inviable characters are no real problem
> here, visible characters that use up more than one physical element are. 
You can not solve visible characters with a simple string type, because for
example in arabic some characters are combined depending on the word.
There is simple access to the bytes and with a bit more to code points.
 
Please give more details what problem you need to solve. Otherwise this thread
will go endless without a solution.
 
Mattias
 
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