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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by p_l on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:45AM (#25441875)
PowerShell and Notepad both use UTF-16, but will read/write UTF-8 to files (filenames are UTF-16).

It's a bit complex, mainly due to hysterical raisins ^W^W historical reasons.

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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by BlueTemplar on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:41PM (#25445590)
'Member how "Bush hid the facts" ?

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dev-cr...

> In PowerShell 6+, the default encoding is UTF-8 without BOM on all platforms.

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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by p_l on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:56AM (#25456091)
Yeah, that's external IO, but nice that they made it more default.

I got used to reading UTF-16 text rendered as ASCII when dealing with NT :)

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