ooRexx does not manage encodings, but that doesn't forbid to use UTF-8 (at
least under Windows and Unix, can't tell for other platforms).
You can open your UTF-8 files as text files, read them, rewrite them, there
is no loss of bytes.
The BIF and String class work at the byte level :
"my UTF-8 string"~length returns the number of bytes, not the number of
characters.
"my UTF-8 string"~pos(superscript1) returns the position in byte-count.
etc...
It's ok to have a source file encoded in UTF-8, but only the string
constants can contain UTF-8 characters, according the rules described in
section "1.10.4. Tokens" in rexxref.pdf
2013/2/13 Peter J. Farley III <pjfarl...@earthlink.net>
> I have reviewed the reference manual documentation on the OPEN method, and
> I do not see any option to specify the encoding of the input stream.****
>
> ** **
>
> Is it possible to specify the input stream encoding anywhere? In
> particular, I have some UTF-8 text produced by Xpdf’s pdftotext utility
> that I want to read and be able to specify UTF-8 character constants in my
> Rexx program code (also encoded in UTF-8) to be compared against the UTF-8
> input characters.****
>
> ** **
>
> For instance, a superscript “1” in UTF-8 is actually encoded as two 8-bit
> characters, hex representation ‘C2B9’X. In my UTF-8 Rexx code, I would
> code a string constant to check for that superscript “1” as a quote, a
> superscript “1” and another quote, which displays as if it is three
> characters in the UTF-8 editor I use.****
>
> ** **
>
> If I am barking up the wrong tree here, please just guide me in the right
> direction.****
>
> ** **
>
> TIA for any help or RTFM you can provide.****
>
> ** **
>
> Regards,****
>
> ** **
>
> Peter****
>
> ** **
>
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