(j3.2006) Get_Command_Argument

[Bill Long]

On 12/15/11 4:50 AM, Tobias Burnus wrote:

>
> PS: I wonder how widely non-8bit characters are used with Fortran; how

So far we have had no requests for it. But our customers tend to run 
applications that are shared internationally, and hence use only 
characters commonly available everywhere (ASCII, mostly).

> many users are (not) satisfied with UTF-8 and default characters; and
> how widely the ISO_10646-kind characters are used. (I think the compiler
> support is still a bit limited; GCC supports it since 4.4, but still
> does not make it easy to type non-ASCII characters as character literals
> in the source code.)

Compiler support is limited partly by lack of demand, but also because 
it is an optional feature in the language.  This allows vendors to not 
support ISO_10646 and still claim conformance.  If we want this more 
generally available, it would help to make it non-optional in the next 
revision. (Though vendors who don't support it now will grumble because 
of the large amount of work involved.)

Cheers,
Bill


>
> Given that Fortran seems to have a large user base in countries with
> non-Latin scripts, I assume that the potential user base is large.
> (http://www.google.com/trends?q=Fortran lists as top Languages: Korean,
> Japanese, Greek, Chinese and as top regions South Korea, Iran, Japan,
> Taiwan, Greece, China, India, Russian Federation.)
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