On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:21:08 +0000, Bigendian Smalls wrote:
>Agreed 100%
>
Well, I'll agree with myself only 98%. I don't like the following behavior:
735 $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk 'BEGIN { printf( "%5s\n%5s\n12345\n", "A", "Ж" ) }'
A
Ж
12345
>> On Feb 20, 2016, at 6:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>> In the UTF-8 representation, then, please. UTF-8 is a marvelously compatible
>> superset of USASCII. Near zero (well, at worst minimal) effort to adapt.
>> And
>> it's the de facto World Wide Web standard.
>>
>> Don't indulge in wishful thinking that a Unicode based compiler can smoothly
>> accept eiter ASCII or EBCDIC source code. The EBCDIC will need to be
>> converted.
-- gil
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