[Info-vax] Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

hb end.of at inter.net
Mon Jun 13 10:26:14 EDT 2016


On 06/13/2016 02:37 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> There's character-escaped support for UCS-2 and VTF-7 in the file system
> naming (see the ^UP, et al, not that there's a whole lot of
> documentation on that or on VTF-7), but no UTF-8 support in anything
> that particularly matters in the user interface and tools, and the
> command line support is a morass of escapes.

Did you mean "^U" instead of "^UP"? The first escape sequence is for
UC2-2, the latter is for specifying Posix path-/filenames in DCL, and
for that it requires another '^' and quoting:

$ dir "^UP^./login.com"
"^UP^./LOGIN.COM"

Total of 1 file.
$



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