Am 05.05.2017 16:08 schrieb "Sven Barth" <pascaldra...@googlemail.com>: > > Am 05.05.2017 16:03 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.mannine...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Mattias Gaertner > > <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > > > 1. When using a character outside BMP FPC stops with: > > > Error: UTF-8 code greater than 65535 found > > > For example: > > > const Eyes = '👀'; > > > > I copy a related post from Lazarus list by myself and Sven Barth. > > It belongs here: > > > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Sven Barth via Lazarus > > <laza...@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > > > That is mainly due to the compiler not supporting surrogate pairs for the > > > UTF-8 -> UTF-16 conversion. If it would support them, then there wouldn't be > > > a problem anymore... > > > > That is a serious bug. Getting codepoints right is the absolute > > minimum requirement for Unicode support. Surrogate pairs are the > > UTF-16 equivalent of multi-byte codepoints in UTF-8. > > > > Now I understand this was not caused by our UTF-8 run-time switch > > "hack". It is a plain bug in FPC. > > Is there a plan to fix it? > > Now it is fixed :D (revision 36116; maybe we should merge that to fixes once I or someone else tested a big endian target)
Okay, it works correctly on big endian targets as well (and Mac OS X 10.4 even has valid characters for the console to test with :D ). Thus this change could be merged to 3.0.3. Regards, Sven
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