home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.lang.fortran      Putting John Backus on a giant pedestal      5,127 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 4,825 of 5,127   
   Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain un   
   08 Nov 24 23:23:56   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/8/2024 10:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 21:00:55 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >> Aren't all of the Unix and Linux boxen either UTF-16 or UTF-32 ?   
   >   
   > No!   
      
   A friend of mine was working on a PLC in Japan a couple of decades ago.   
   It was very custom Unix and UTF-32.  He was shocked.  He had several   
   problems porting their software to the PLC.   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca