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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 11:57:41 -0000 (UTC)
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
> On 10/15/2024 5:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:26:42 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> 
>>> Any plans to support UTF16 or UTF8 in gfortran ?
>> 
>> No UTF-16, please!
>> 
>> That was just a horrible backward-compatibility hack for the sake of those
>> platforms (*cough* Java, Windows NT *cough*) that embraced Unicode as
>> their native encoding just a little too soon.
>
> Aren't all of the Unix and Linux boxen either UTF-16 or UTF-32 ?

Most certainly not:

$ echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8

Haven't seen anything but UTF-8 in a long time.