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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, 8 Nov 2024 21:00:55 -0600
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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 ?

Lynn