[Info-vax] Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-13 14:26:14 +0000, hb said:

> 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.
> $


I rest my case.


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