Paul D. Smith wrote: > The idea I had involves changing escaped special characters like spaces > into "impossible" byte values in make's internal string representation. > That way all of make's current manipulation would continue to work > as-is: when searching for whitespace to break up words for example it > would not see the "impossible" byte values as whitespace, so it wouldn't > break on that character.
If I've been told correctly, then the special about UTF-8 is that is takes all 7 bit characters as they are, i.e., a space is still a space. Only 8 bit character can have a special meaning. Bye, Andreas _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make