Unicode mangling (was Re: [PATCH] Java: New C++ ABI compatibility changes.)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:

Jason> All extended characters are encoded as '__UNNN_' (between 2 and
Jason> 8 Ns) '__U' is encoded as '__U55_'

Jason> Yowza.

I'm a bit confused.  If the new ABI is multi-vendor, won't having some
ad hoc way to handle this mean that our compiler will potentially be
incompatible with the other vendors?  That is, shouldn't the ABI
specify this?

Tom