On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 19:51 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > All of that means that there are no run-time problems. > > The only actual concern is whether compilers will choke > > on UTF-8 source files. Alan says that, according to the > > standard, a compiler would be perfectly right to choke. > > I believe him. I also don't care. > > I don't think that one is a show stopper because if you can guarantee the > rest will not break C provides you with \ escapes so you can paste the > string in that way. So the question is the one about feeding utf-8 to > glibc functions and internal cleanness of gtk/glib (eg what C library > dependancies does it have). Having to use \ escapes for the quotes is a > trivial inconvenience.
One place that we have seen compilers choke is on Windows ... we used to have literal UTF-8 strings in the GTK+ sources, and on Chinese localized windows, that caused MSVC problems. So we switched to octal escapes. But it should be noted these problems were 4-5 years ago, and the versions of Windows and MSVC may have been much older. - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
