On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:39 AM Alan Snyder <javali...@cbfiddle.com> wrote:
> > Therefore, my needs would be met by a (new) primitive that returns UTF-8 > and fails if the String contains NUL. > Maybe your programs are always running in a UTF-8 locale and maybe most computing environments have migrated to UTF-8 (good!), BUT: - that's hardly universal - macosx has stricter requirements - it uses filenames normalized in a macosx-specific way - Windows may prefer UTF-16 encoded text.
