Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>>>   The same goes for the Unix VM.  I cannot seem to get a string with
>>> "3.9-12" or such.  How about if we define system attribute 1007 for a
>>> "real VM version" (equivalent of VM_VERSION macro for Windows)?
>> Why not let the VM return the encoding string from a system attribute?
> 
>   Oh yeah, I now remember that.  We can define four different
> primitives (keyboard, clip board, file path name, and preferred file
> contents).  Having the VM version is sometimes useful, though.

To which the answers would be: UTF-8, UTF-8, UTF-8 and, err, UTF-8 ;-) 
(Seriously, I fail to see the need for four different primitives given 
that UTF-8 is so prevalent today and has easy conversions on every known 
platform under the sun)

Cheers,
   - Andreas