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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:04:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
> 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.

I should have qualified that with "on Linux". 

> UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a 
> total pain.

I can well believe that.

At least Fortran has standard methods of using UTF-8.