[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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