[Patch?, fortran] PRs 31197, 31258 and 31879 - character things

[Paul Thomas]

Brooks,
>
> However, Mark Mitchell did say that there would be a lockdown mode for 
> a couple of weeks at the end of Stage 1, which IIRC is to take effect 
> at the end of today.  The purpose was to fix the bugs accumulating 
> from all of the Stage 1 merges, before moving on to Stage 2.
OK
>
>
> The terms of the lockdown are essentially "fixes for regressions, 
> wrong-code bugs, and accepts-invalid bugs, only."  If Paul's patch 
> falls into that category, it would be okay even during the lockdown.  
> If it doesn't, then it should wait until Stage 2, and would definitely 
> be okay then.
It does fall into that category but, if I have time, I will take a 
couple more weeks to do this job properly :-)

Cheers

Paul