Tomas Hajny wrote:
On Mon, January 7, 2013 13:28, Ewald wrote:
Once upon a time, on 01/07/2013 12:39 PM to be precise, Michael Schnell
said:
On 01/05/2013 12:28 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
Using whatever #xx#xx or #xx#xx#xx sequence represents the UTF-8
encoding of that character.
Sorry, I can't follow. Does #xx not just define a numerical
representation of an 8 bit entity ?
The interpretation in any code might be done later by any code that
digests the string.
Am I wrong ?
I *think* Jonas is trying to say that if you want the character `Ǿ` in a
string you would either type
- 'Ǿ' or
- #$C7#$BE if you want to keep the source free of encoding specific
characters
.
.
...or
- #$01FE and then the whole string becomes a Unicode string which is
either kept that way (if it is assigned to a UnicodeString constant), or
it is converted to some 8-bit encoding at compile time (if it is assigned
to an 8-bit constant/variable like ansistring)
(also just my understanding of what Jonas wrote)
That's how I read it as well. In which case, is #A3 16-bit Unicode
(representing the UK £ Sterling) or malformed UTF-8 (should be #c2#a3)?
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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