Re: [boost] UTF-8 BOM and Boost.Build

On 01/05/2011 16:26, Vladimir Prus wrote:

You seem to be moving the goals, though. What problem are you actually trying to solve? What libraries in Boost want to use UTF8 sources, and for what purposes? Will those libraries work on compilers that have no way of parsing UTF8 files?

I'm trying to provide an alternative to the "-finput-charset=utf-8" GCC option setting for MSVC. This option affects all files read by GCC for that particular invocation, and it would be nice if it could do the same thing for MSVC, which unfortunately involves prepending a UTF-8 BOM to all files the compiler will read.