On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:43:40 +0200 Michael Lutz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 24.10.2011 12:15 schrieb Michael Schnell: > > On 10/21/2011 01:26 PM, Michael Lutz wrote: > >> > >> Ever heard of decomposed characters? > > Handling those in a computer program seems similar to having the > > computer understand a philosophical text. > > So I guess a user wanting to enter 'e̊' in response to the prompt 'Please > enter a single character' is clearly crazy? Even if that isn't a character > in common natural languages, using it in a mathematical context for > example isn't strange at all. What mathematical context needs a prompt for a single character? Mathematical papers often use symbols consisting of a 'single characters' with all kind of marks. There is no rule to use only one character per mathematical symbol. > Hint: The above character has *no* precomposed form (and is made up from > two code points), and a program that stores the response to such a prompt > into a single Char/WideChar/etc variable will just fail silently. Yes. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
