Re: Unicode string literals

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I was thinking about the case where one develops and normally builds on 
> systems
> that assume UTF-8 source code (perhaps because a build system is old and just
> compiles the bytes unchecked), but that on occasion a builder might translate
> all the source code to (say) EUC-JP for whatever reason, and then compile on a
> newer platform that supports the u8 prefix.
> 
> Admittedly the scenario is unlikely.

Yes, this is unlikely. In a world where people routinely do a "git pull" from
upstream repositories and send patches or pull requests upstream, every
automated downstream manipulation of the source code - even as small as
transforming CR/LF to LF - becomes a PITA.

Bruno