On 10/5/07, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you're dealing with klingon and ancient languages, I think you > can assume that for 99.99% of currently spoken languages every character > will be exactly 2 bytes long.
You are forgetting about chinese. Some billion people speak it =) And you can't represent all chinese characters with ucs-2 -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives