Dan,
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>Note that, e.g., system calls on Windows come in two flavors, one
>ascii and one unicode, with the ascii promised to be depreciated
>sometime.
I assume you meant deprecated.
Why, is this another BG de facto standard in the making?
Much Fortran code (that I have written/seen) that plays with characters tends to
assume ASCII. Two new intrinsics even came into F90 (??), ACHAR and IACHAR
presumably to allow for the lesser used alternative of EBCDIC, and portability.
Since even in Australia, they speak a variant of English, I had never felt a
need to have kinds of characters. Merely a string length.
My exceptional use is of Greek characters on output (graphical) displays. I can
effect this quite easily with, e.g., GKS by changing the font -- also many other
symbols are available from other fields of endeavour.
Regards, Paddy
Paddy O'Brien,
Transmission Development,
TransGrid,
PO Box A1000, Sydney South,
NSW 2000, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9284-3063
Fax: +61 2 9284-3050
Email: [log in to unmask]
Either "\'" or "\s" (to escape the apostrophe) seems to work for most people,
but that little whizz-bang apostrophe gives me little spam.
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