From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   > 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.   
      
   I should have qualified that with "on Linux".   
      
   > UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a   
   > total pain.   
      
   I can well believe that.   
      
   At least Fortran has standard methods of using UTF-8.   
      
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