Alon, it turns out that the source file that I was working on belongs to a 
Visual Studio project that was encoded with Windows-1252. I was able to 
pass compilation after saving the file with utf-8 encoding.

On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 7:21:10 PM UTC-7, awt wrote:
>
> This is the error that I saw in the compilation stage:
>
> xxx.cpp:49:25: error: illegal character encoding in string literal
>         StringClass dummyString(L"<E9>l<E8>ve - <E0> la fa<E7>on - 
> ch<E2>teau");
>
> On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 10:43:39 AM UTC-7, Alon Zakai wrote:
>>
>> What is the exact output? It would help to know what reports the error - 
>> the clang frontend, emscripten backend, or another part of the toolchain.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:35 AM, awt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the following string literal in my program:
>>>
>>> "élève - à la façon - château"
>>>
>>> Emscripten reports an error 'illegal character encoding in string 
>>> literal' when it encounters the string above. Has anybody come across this 
>>> before?
>>>
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