--enable-c-mbchar weirdness

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:23:45AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:18:00PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Is this how --enable-c-mbchar is supposed to work? Different
> > result of compilation depending on used locale? Strange...
> 
> Yes, unfortunately, we do not yet have a way for source files to
> indicate their encoding.  Also, --enable-c-mbchar has gone unused for
> a long time and is therefore likely to have bugs.

As an aside, both gcc and libstdc++-v3 pay attention to this option.  (Not
that this effects the OP's question, just FYI.)


Phil

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