Hi Tony, thanks for your reply! But we are not talking about the coverage of UTF-16, we just want to make sure whether X11 uses UTF-16, or only UCS-16, which only supports BMP. I'm afraid I'll have no time to test that until this Thursday, so I hope any one could help. Best regards, Edward Fox
On 9/11/07, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bram Moolenaar wrote: > [...] > > I doubt X11 uses UTF-16, that is something that MS-Windows uses. GTK > > uses utf-8 in most places. Other X11 toolkits probably differ, since > > they are older. > > > > Even with UTF-16, it is possible to display codepoints outside the BMP (up > to > U+10FFFF IIRC, and the current Unicode guidelines say that there will > "never" > be any valid codepoints higher than that) by means of surrogate pairs. IIRC, > that's what the W32 GUI already does. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > Dealing with failure is easy: work hard to improve. Success is also > easy to handle: you've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to > improve. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
