From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/9/2024 5:57 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Lynn McGuire  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.  UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a   
   total pain.   
      
   Microsoft is rumored to be working on a UTF-8 API for Win32 / Win64.  I   
   will believe it when I see it.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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