[Info-vax] VMS Basic strings class D vs class S

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 18:44:29 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> I would assume that such code will break in various ways when presented
> with UTF-8.

Could be worse. Imagine if you had adopted Unicode at exactly that period 
in the early 1990s, like Windows NT and Java did, when it was still 
supposed to be a fixed-length 16-bit code. Then you would be saddled with 
that albatross known as UTF-16.