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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain un   
   15 Oct 24 22:35:36   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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