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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: C and C++, promotion, stabilization, migrationFor embedded
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:26:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 8/23/2024 11:32 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> OpenVMS has ~no concept of languages, either. Yeah, the C abd C++ I18N 
>> giblets, Java and its own little world, maybe using the existing and 
>> older ICU or maybe you ported a newer ICU, and the deprecated Terminal 
>> Fallback Facility (TFF) and National (Replacement)  Character Set (NCS) 
>> giblets, sure. All of which make things more interesting for apps that 
>> want or need to deal with the UTF-8 and post-ASCII world.
>
> Regarding UTF-8 support, then  my take is that:
>
> UTF-8 in file names, in usernames, in logicals, in identifiers and in
> programs/scripts: not really needed.
>

Some possible examples:

Train_Timetable_Flåm_to_Hønefoss.pdf

or (in a filesystem):

/data/sites/Flåm/
/data/sites/Hønefoss/
/data/sites/Bodø/

How do you think these should be handled ?

Not every location on the planet is restricted to using US-ASCII naming.

Simon.

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