Re: C and C++, promotion, stabilization, migrationFor embedded

On 2024-08-25, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

On 8/24/2024 6:55 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

UTF-8 in file names, in usernames, in logicals, in identifiers and in
programs/scripts: not really needed.

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Everything needs to be utf8 aware. Not just text files. A good start
would be to add utf8 aware functionality to VMS.
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I have to ask, why?  What benefit comes from the OS, services, other OS specific
objects, might there be in having the OS itself and it's parts supporting such?
Forget desires, concentrate on benefits.
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I have posted some examples of places with non-US characters in them
in response to Arne.

What do _you_ think filenames based on these places should be called ?

Simon.

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