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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: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:35:50 -0700 (MST)
- CC: eggert at twinsun dot com, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812220430.UAA09356@cygnus.com>
- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
I guess I was responding to the idea of passing uninterpreted
bytes through, and pointing that that is a bad idea for at least
external identifiers and for Java.
For non-ASCII bytes in external identifiers, we can't simply
pass them through, because many assemblers won't accept them
as identifier characters. Some sort of encoding is needed
in the .s file. I proposed one, but others might be better.
Conversion to UTF-8 won't work, because the assembler probably won't
accept that either.