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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:40:19 -0600
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On 11/9/2024 5:57 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 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.

Come over here to Windows.  UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a 
total pain.

Microsoft is rumored to be working on a UTF-8 API for Win32 / Win64.  I 
will believe it when I see it.

Lynn