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Re: [SG16] On the character encoding of diagnostic text

From: Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 22:24:18 +0200
On 01/09/2020 22.07, Alisdair Meredith via SG16 wrote:
> Remember, after phase 1 all of those string literals /are/ encoded directly in the basic source character set. The question is whether we expect implementations to reverse those UCN encodings when displaying/interpreting those strings?

 - Whether such UCN encoding is done or not is intended to be
an unobservable specification vehicle.

 - There are attempts afoot to use Unicode (or a superset thereof)
as the translation character set.

Jens

Received on 2020-09-01 15:27:51