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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
the component owners.</p>
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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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