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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 13:04:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-25, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 8/24/2024 6:55 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> UTF-8 in file names, in usernames, in logicals, in identifiers and in
>>> programs/scripts: not really needed.
>>
>> Everything needs to be utf8 aware. Not just text files. A good start
>> would be to add utf8 aware functionality to VMS.
>>
>
> I have to ask, why?  What benefit comes from the OS, services, other OS specific 
> objects, might there be in having the OS itself and it's parts supporting such? 
> Forget desires, concentrate on benefits.
>

I have posted some examples of places with non-US characters in them
in response to Arne.

What do _you_ think filenames based on these places should be called ?

Simon.

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