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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/9/19 3:31 AM, Corentin wrote:<br>
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                <div>3) support for a subset of Win32 interfaces that
                  take char8_t.  E.g., U8 variants of some existing A/W
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          <div>That seems unlikely ?</div>
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    <p>Probably.  That is why I stated a subset.  We had discussed this
      with a Microsoft representative and he stated this would be up to
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                <div>z/OS is a bit more interesting. Though EBCDIC
                  based, ASCII interfaces <span
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                    implicitly transcode to EBCDIC </span>are available
                  for a subset of C interfaces . As far as I am aware,
                  there are no plans to extend this support to include
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          <div>Their interest in text is limited, it is clearly a small
            minority here.</div>
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    I don't agree that their interest in text is limited.  EBCDIC is
    text even though it can't represent all the world's languages (same
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          <div>I think there is a difference between not breaking their
            use cases and designing for that platform specifically. </div>
          <div>Whatever we do, they will be fine</div>
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    <p>I agree, I'm not worried about IBM.  But I do expect us to honor
      our long shared history and to be sensitive to the fact that many
      billions of lines of code that are still maintained were not
      written for Unicode.<br>
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    <p>Tom.</p>
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