Using SWI-Prolog (threaded, 64 bits, version 8.1.22) on Windows 10. Unable to create Unicode code point U+10000 in a string. Based on the documentation Character Escape Syntax Using the character a in a string is working and with the escape variations. ?- C = "a". C = "a". ?- C = "\x61". C = "a…

It is a long discussion that has been repeated several times :frowning: Bottom line is that Unicode text is represented internally as wchar_t arrays, where I once hoped these could hold any unicode value. Alas, in Windows wchar_t is 16 bits unsigned (unsigned short) using UTF-16 encoding, which me…

Unicode code point for U+10000 on Windows OS. Use in string results in Illegal character code

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Unicode code point for U+10000 on Windows OS. Use in string results in Illegal character code

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