P.J. Plauger wrote:

> I see uses for a whole collection of Unicode encodings, so I think
> the C and C++ Standards got it right in decoupling encodings from
> their respective languages. But you then need an add-on library
> to finish the job. (See, for example, our CoreX library.)

In what way is this not the same stance that was taken by the designers
of Algol 60 re I-O, and which arguably resulted in the demise of Algol?

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