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Re: Where is my bicycle?
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Re: Where is my bicycle?

  • Subject: Re: Where is my bicycle?
  • From: Greg Parker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:03:53 -0700
> On Apr 6, 2015, at 2:20 PM, pscott <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 4/6/2015 12:29 PM, Greg Parker wrote:
>> I'm not an expert here, but my understanding is that when Cocoa says "character" it usually means "UTF-16 code unit". @"🚲".length == 2, for example. Cocoa's string API designed when Unicode was still a true 16-bit character set.
>
> That would be UCS-2 encoding. If the full Unicode character set of 1,112,064 characters isn't supported it should not be documented as supporting UTF-16.

No, it's not UCS-2. The API generally works as if it were manipulating an array of UTF-16 code units. @"🚲" displays correctly; it would not if the system were truly UCS-2.


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Greg Parker     email@hidden     Runtime Wrangler



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