Re: Gmake UTF-8 Support?

[Dan Kegel]

Hi all,
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/create-a-utf8-c-runtime/351432
has some info from 2020 about utf-8 locale support in recent builds of
windows.
- Dan

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU implementation of make <
help-make@gnu.org> schrieb am Fr., 1. Okt. 2021, 07:45:

> > There is no issue.
> > The legal aspects of linking GPL software with MSVCRT.DLL have been
> > examined long ago, and the examination concluded that doing so is
> > perfectly kosher.
>
> I think you're talking at cross-purposes: you're talking about whether
> it's legally safe to link to this library, whereas Kaz is talking about
> whether MS makes any promise about the contents of this library
> (i.e. whether it's technically safe to link to it).
>
> IIUC it's definitely legal to link to it, and while MS would like to
> have a free hand in what it puts into this library, in practice the
> marketplace pressure to ensure backward compatibility appears to be
> sufficient to make its use technically safe so far.
>
>
>         Stefan
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