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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
