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   Bonita Montero to All   
   Re: Unicode...   
   03 Dec 25 06:24:23   
   
   From: Bonita.Montero@gmail.com   
      
   Am 18.11.2025 um 21:17 schrieb Michael Sanders:   
   > Hi James, umm 'guarantees'? No no... It does NOT verify:   
   >   
   > - whether the environment actually supports UTF8 fully   
   > - whether multibyte functions are enabled   
   > - whether the terminal supports UTF8   
   > - whether the C library supports UTF8 normalization   
   >    (combining characters, etc. but it seems to work well here)   
   >   
   > To be sure: It's not a UTF-8 capability test. It's only a   
   > locale-string check. So it likely misses many valid UTF8   
   > locale variants...   
   >   
   > Here I'm running any mixture of: Windows/BSD/Linix Mint LMDE.   
   Windows has the ...W() APIs along with codepage-based APIs with   
   the ...A() Suffix. The W()-APIs support UTF-16, so no need for   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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