This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- To: bothner at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- From: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 07:56:43 +0100
- CC: gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812092256.OAA29932@cygnus.com>
> I would prefer to mangle Unicode characters using UTF-8, as that
> is the cleanest solution, but there are alternative mangling schemes
> which have the advantage of working with older assemblers. I don't
> have a good handle on how important that is.
My mistake. jc1 does not mandate UTF-8; what it does mandate is
Unicode (in some form), right? Paul is proposing that assembler files
should be in the source character set; I think this is the wrong way.
Martin