Is UTF-16 Widestring in FPC (and Delphi 200x ? ) not done just ignoring the
surrogates ?
Lets hope not,
I don't think, full UTF-16 really would be desirable desirable over UC-2.
Imagine you have a string of some million characters (e.g. a Book). All
functions that need to find the n-th character (like x[n], copy, ...)
would take forever, as they need to scan the complete string (if not
widestring is a rather complex tree-like format).
-Michael
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