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   Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain un   
   08 Nov 24 21:00:55   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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