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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:48AM (#25454400)
> Octave uses UTF-8 on Linux which works well

It doesn't :

On Linux :

- Can't use Unicode filenames

- Can't use Unicode identifiers

(- Actually, you can use Unicode in comments, not sure why I wrote that...)

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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by cbolton on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:51PM (#25561955)
Octave on Linux has no problem with UTF-8 filenames, it can read from and write to such files without problem.

It's true you cannot use non-ASCII UTF-8 names for script and functions, since in that case the file name is also the command/function name. But that's a statement about valid identifiers, not supported filenames. Every language I know of has restrictions on identifiers.

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