> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:38:08 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > > From: Costas Argyris <costas.argy...@gmail.com> > > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:42:52 +0000 > > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > > > Also, since the above experiments seem to suggest that we are not > > dropping existing support for non-ASCII characters in programs > > called by Make, it seems like a clear step forwards in terms of > > Unicode support on Windows. > > I agree.
Btw, there's one aspect where Make on MS-Windows will probably fall short of modern Posix systems: the display of non-ASCII characters on the screen. Such as the "Entering directory FOO" and echo of the commands being run by Make. A typical Windows console (a.k.a. "Command Prompt" window) can display non-ASCII characters only from a handful of scripts due to limitations of the fonts used for these windows, and in addition displaying UTF-8 encoded characters in these windows using printf etc. doesn't work well. So users who use such non-ASCII characters in their Makefiles should expect a lot of mojibake on the screen.
