[Info-vax] Internationalization

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Dec 29 17:22:45 EST 2018


On 12/29/2018 4:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> And as the character encoding... The lack of UTF-8 is limiting.  As is 
> the lack of flagging on the descriptors.  I have to track my own string 
> encoding.
> 
> VAX, Alpha or Itanium are unlikely to see any work on UTF-8, and 
> certainly not until well after the x86-64 port and a pile or three of 
> other work is completed.

But for some things (user mode things like UTF-8 support) wouldn't
it be easier to make changes to both x86-64 and Itanium (and maybe
Alpha) instead of making them x86-64 only?

Arne





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