ooRexx and Character Sets (Dealing with UTF-8)

Activity: Talk or presentationScience to science

Description

In today's world the UTF-8 Unicode character set becomes more and more dominant as more and more important Internet infrastructures are standardizing on it. Rexx and ooRexx were created with a 8-bit character set in mind and as such are not able to correctly do character translations to and from UTF-8 on their own on all operating systems. Still, it is possible to correctly use UTF-8 on the different platforms. This talk introduces some of the available techniques.
Period6 Mar 2024
Event title2024 International Rexx Symposium
Event typeConference
LocationBrisbane, Australia, QueenslandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102022 Software development
  • 502050 Business informatics

Keywords

  • ooRexx
  • BSF4ooRexx850
  • Java