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Re: 8482 busted for $^V sprintf()s on OS/390

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From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
January 23, 2001 00:31
Subject:
Re: 8482 busted for $^V sprintf()s on OS/390
Message ID:
20010123083104.A1182@pembro26.pmb.ox.ac.uk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:25:49PM -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> > Damn! It's actually all starting to work, isn't it? :)
> Sans tables no less (should we be fearful?)

That's because we're not actually supporting Unicode, we're supporting
using UTF8 as an encoding for EBCDIC. This is of dubious utility.

-- 
Life's a switch() and then you die().
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