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Question1 answer782 followingPosted 10 Jul 2026, 18:24 UTC37.7K views4,650 votes

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REXX 6.0 Unicode build vs. legacy 8-bit semantics: migrating a low-traffic text script

REXX 6.0 introduced optional Unicode (UTF-8) support, allowing scripts to read, write, and manipulate international text natively. For a low-traffic workload that currently handles international data through external conversion tooling, moving to the UTF-8 build could remove that dependency and simplify deployment and maintenance. The transition crosses a co

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Question1 answer2,476 followingPosted 12 Jul 2023, 11:29 UTC111.9K views1,454 votes

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Syntax errors in production only: should SWI-Prolog encoding be pinned in source or in deployment config?

A SWI-Prolog codebase loads and runs correctly on development machines, but on the production host the same files fail with syntax errors or produce silently wrong atoms. The working hypothesis is character encoding: the files are saved as UTF-8, while the server locale differs from the workstation locale, so the byte stream is misread before parsing and the

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prolog utf-8 encoding

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