[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-01-22 17:36:46 +0000, DeanW said:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM Dave Froble via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/21/2019 8:44 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> As for string manipulation, like upcase, it hasn't been a popular request.
>>> 
>> 
>> Perhaps because anyone needing it already had a solution, or used an 
>> existing external routine?
> 
> Posting from the cheap seats... This would be my take. Anyone that 
> care[s|d] found a solution that suits them about two decades ago.
> 
> I would be surprised to find any new heavy lifting done in PASCAL, so 
> I'd rather John (et al) work on other things, putting time and effort 
> into things that might draw in new customers.

Ayup.

The time for upcase, downcase, and related support in Pascal and other 
languages was ~twenty years ago.

Now, it'd likely best be work on OpenVMS wrappers around ICU and 
related UTF-8 support, or analogous wrappage.

DEC MCS is a dead-end, and ASCII now exists as a subset of UTF-8.

OpenVMS knows bupkis about UTF-8, beyond some "recent" RMS filename 
work and the few apps that can contend with same.


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