Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Unicode in strings Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:07:50 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2024May29.100750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2024May10.182047@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024May11.173149@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024May12.110053@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <6124140226e28fd4afec0b435bdbeca1@www.novabbs.org> <88rk4j9irgh046o4hh8bl0pkotn4dabg0f@4ax.com> <2024May20.134620@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:11:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8dde46fdf7008275d2b3739552e1883a"; logging-data="1123671"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OwzqWXgsZkSC/ghrfN0sA" Cancel-Lock: sha1:oMYIW1XWdWcLmL8w0OT1lM7Nr/U= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 2172 Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: >On Mon, 20 May 2024 11:46:20 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote: > >> Algol 60 does not standardize a program representation in characters (a >> grave mistake fixed by most later programming languages ... > >That would likely not have been considered feasible in 1960, given the >wide variation in character sets between computer systems. COBOL did it. LISP did it. It was feasible in 1960. It's just that the Algol 60 committee did not want to go there. And the Algol 68 committee did not want to go there even though ASCII was standardized in 1963, and Algol 68 was only finished in 1974 AFAIK. - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup,