Rexx was designed before Unicode was established.  I worry that it will 
become less and less popular (it's really only a niche language at present) 
as long as it eschews support for I18N, and will eventually drop out of 
sight.

Leslie

On 2018-05-29 09:22:43 Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> Just noticed, that even CSV files downloaded from European banks nowadays
> get encoded in UTF (UTF-16 in this case), which makes sense, if
> international transfer get carried out and the transfer text may have a
> need to include text from different countries in the world.
>
> So support for processing UTF text in ooRexx becomes more and more
> important, at least in Europe.
>
> ---rony
>
> P.S.: For processing UTF encoded text files I use BSF4ooRexx which makes
> Java's UTF support available to ooRexx, including codepage related
> translations (like UTF-16 to cp1252 and vice versa).


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