30 Jan
2012
30 Jan
'12
8:24 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org>
What probably should be done is that compilers should be compelled to support UTF-8 as the source character set in a unified way.
Makes sense to me.
Why don't you write up an issue for the C and C++ committees? My
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Another possibility is to start lobbying compiler vendors, or at least Microsoft, to support UTF-8 both with and without BOM.
It is not only BOM not BOM issue. It is mostly the ability to define execution character set. i.e. character set for normal "some text" literals and the input character set and what is even more important that C++ compilers must support UTF-8 for the two of them. Artyom