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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:16:19 -0600
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On 11/22/2024 8:08 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:40:19 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> Come over here to Windows.  UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a
>> total pain.
> 
> Microsoft (and Sun, with Java) adopted Unicode at precisely the wrong
> time, back when everybody believed the Unicode folks who said that it
> would remain a fixed-length 16-bit code.
> 
>> Microsoft is rumored to be working on a UTF-8 API for Win32 / Win64.  I
>> will believe it when I see it.
> 
> Linux simply ignored the issue. Filespecs passed to the kernel are split
> at ASCII “/” characters and terminated by NUL. And those are the only byte
> values with special interpretations; file/directory names are free to
> contain anything else. As a result, it works seamlessly with UTF-8.

It was probably an economic decision on Microsoft's part with having to 
ship different versions of DOS and Windows with English, French, 
Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc, etc, etc back in the 1980s.  UTF-8 came 
out in the middle 1990s ???  I suspect that they wanted to ship just one 
version of Windows, Office, etc and have it automatically acclimate to 
the user's desired main language.

Several countries mandated that large software shops ship their 
countries native language in their software.  France and Quebec were the 
guiltiest of this.  I actually have a French version of Microsoft Office 
95 over in my cabinet.

Lynn