Re: [boost] MSVC doesn't like some high-ASCII characters on non-US systems

* Paul Giaccone (paulg@cinesite.co.uk) [20060404 16:48]:

(and that you could always write "Gerhard Schroeder" for "Gerhard Schröder" [the former Chancellor of Germany]).

You can do that. But the other way round is not always correct, i.e. you can't blindly change "Gerhard Schroeder" to "Gerhard Schröder" without knowing which one's the correct form.

When you say "the old TeX way", do you mean writing \~n for n-tilde, for

I agree with you that it'd be awkward to read. It was the first thing that came to my mind when searching for a simple way to express the written form of a letter. BTW, need I say that IMNSHO that MSVC warning is very stupid? Philipp