On 01/29/2012 09:13 AM, Artyom Beilis wrote:
In fact the ONLY modern compiler that deos not suppor them is Vistual Studio, all others I had ever used (gcc, clang, intel, sunstudio) work fine with UTF-8.
They all support it, the problem is that they require different things to use it.
1. BOM should not be used in source code, no compiler except MSVC uses it and most do not support it.
According to Yakov, GCC supports it now. It would be nice if it could work without any BOM though.
2. Setting UTF-8 BOM makes narrow literals to be encoded in ANSI encoding which makes BOM useless (crap... sory) with MSVC even more.
That's the correct behaviour. Use u8 string literals if you want UTF-8. The problem is only present if the compiler doesn't have those string literals.