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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by criddell on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:12AM (#25443467)
Why is UTF-16 considered very basic? Can't it encode everything UTF-8 can encode?
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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by BlueTemplar on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:50PM (#25445731)
I guess that I formulated that poorly : Having to default to one of the UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 is another complication that makes it harder to do Unicode properly. (What happens when you paste UTF-8 into a UTF-16 file ?)

And I guess that they have to follow the lead of Matlab anyway, at the risk of going into another direction... EDIT : Yeah : https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57103#comment7

Speaking of which, I should check how Scilab deals with it!

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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by jlokier on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#25445360)
Yes it can. JavaScript and the web DOM use UTF-16 and nobody says their Unicode support is basic.

So UTF-16 is not the problem.

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