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From:
Andy Lester
Date:
November 28, 2007 07:21
Subject:
Re: Dropping 5.5 support from my modules.
Message ID:
9267D25A-5F2E-488E-82DE-7B12E1766C37@petdance.com

On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Gerard Goossen wrote:

> Because of the explicit distinction kurila makes between using
> codepoints and using bytes¹, no special handling is required for  
> EBCDIC
> and all EBCDIC specific code is in utfebcdic.h.
> That said, I don't have access to an EBCDIC machine and don't know how
> to simulate it, and thus it probably doesn't really work, but it
> doesn't make the rest of the code more complex².

OK, but what about the VMS part?  That's really the key question: How  
much simpler does the code get by removing VMS support?

Yes, I understand it's academic at this point.

xoxo,
Andy


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