Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:40:19 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Come over here to Windows.  UTF-16 is the name of the game.  It is a
total pain.

Microsoft (and Sun, with Java) adopted Unicode at precisely the wrong
time, back when everybody believed the Unicode folks who said that it
would remain a fixed-length 16-bit code.

Microsoft is rumored to be working on a UTF-8 API for Win32 / Win64.  I
will believe it when I see it.

Linux simply ignored the issue. Filespecs passed to the kernel are split
at ASCII “/” characters and terminated by NUL. And those are the only byte
values with special interpretations; file/directory names are free to
contain anything else. As a result, it works seamlessly with UTF-8.