[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Unicode string literals
|
From: |
Paul Eggert |
|
Subject: |
Re: Unicode string literals |
|
Date: |
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:54:26 -0700 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 4/30/20 6:08 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> These not-so-new compilers don't perform
> character set conversion; you have to provide the numeric value of each
> byte yourself (either as escapes, or by enumerating the bytes of the
> string one by one).
Could we have a macro to be used only in source code encoded via UTF-8?
Presumably the older compilers would process the bytes of the string as if they
were individual 8-bit characters and would pass them through unchanged, so the
run-time string would be UTF-8 too.