[Info-vax] Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 12:37:54 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> String descriptors — a very primitive and limited form of an object — 
> lacks any sort of character encoding tag, and the file system similarly 
> lacks encoding-related metadata mechanisms.

That’s not fatal. Anything formerly was defined to hold ASCII bytes can simply be redefined to be UTF-8. Lots of things on other platforms have done that.

Just so long as the code for handling it is 8-bit clean. :)