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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: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:26:42 -0800 (PST)
- CC: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812100715.XAA26935@cygnus.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 23:15:43 -0800
From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
assembler files should also be in UTF-8, at least for
compiler-generated .s files). Humans-written .s files will
probably be in the source locale, so we may need a pre-processor
(possibly gasp) to convert to UTF-8.
This doesn't sound feasible to me. It will be confusing to explain to
people that assembly-language files do not all smell the same, and
that you need to compile hand-generated files with one command, and
compiler-generated files with another.
Also, it doesn't match current GCC practice, which already puts
EUC-JIS strings into assembler files quite happily.