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Re: lame feature request: option to disable multiline C++ comments


> I'd rather we put up with the current behaviour a little while longer.
> Hopefully in the not too distant future CPP will handle mutlibyte
> charsets properly, and this issue will automatically vanish.

How will this work?  There are endless "standards" for multibyte encoding and trying to do
auto-detection is a black art.  Web browsers try to do that and often get it wrong.  In the end
a "content type" header including encoding format is required from the HTTP server.

Thanks



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