On 05/05/2011 16:40, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > The UTF-7/8 encodings are purely numerical compression schemes, while > UTF-16 (with surrogate pairs) more reflects a tree-like structure of > "planes", "groups", "blocks", "codepages" etc., favored by the Unicode > Consortium. Such a view may be interesting to font writers, which can
My final words on this... Not just that, the Unicode standard also defines things like Normalization, Decomposition, Collation, Rendering, Bidirectional Display Order, Character Properties etc.... all of which I believe UCS-2 doesn't. All in all, Unicode is far beyond the scope of UCS-2. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
