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

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
January 23, 2001 05:53
Subject:
Re: 8482 busted for $^V sprintf()s on OS/390
Message ID:
20010123075301.D8146@chaos.wustl.edu
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:31:04AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 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.

If we get make test to work 100% on EBCDIC I'm happy even without the UTF-8.

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

-- 
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        # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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