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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: "Unicode"
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 15:21:42 +1200
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On 09/ 1/16 03:06 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 8/31/2016 7:50 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>> On 31.08.2016 22:31, Richard wrote:
>>> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>>>
>>> Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> spake the secret code
>>> <KMidnZveE6s6cVjKnZ2dnUU78K_NnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> thusly:
>>>
>>>> At the time that the C++ standard decided that it was not necessary to
>>>> handle file names with anything other than narrow chars [...]
>>>
>>> C++ had been around for 15+ years before it was standardized.  The
>>> standardization process was capturing existing practice more
>>
>> Uhm, that's bollocks.
>>
>> One would have to search long and hard and wide to find a
>> standardization with more pure innovation than C++98.
>>
>
> Sorry, Richard is correct.  C++98 was NOT the first standard.

So what was?

-- 
Ian