Hi everyone, I've been watching this discussion.
On Fri, 2020 May 1 18:52-04:00, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> Yes, this is unlikely. In a world where people routinely do a "git pull" from
> upstream repositories and send patches or pull requests upstream, every
> automated downstream manipulation of
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I was thinking about the case where one develops and normally builds on
> systems
> that assume UTF-8 source code (perhaps because a build system is old and just
> compiles the bytes unchecked), but that on occasion a builder might translate
> all the source code to (say)
On 5/1/20 2:01 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Did you mean (1) that the programmer shall define a macro, that indicates that
> their source code is UTF-8 encoded?
>
> Or did you mean (2) that gnulib shall define a macro, that shall _assume_ that
> the source code is UTF-8 encoded, and then expand to
Hi Paul,
> >> Could we have a macro to be used only in source code encoded via UTF-8?
> >> Presumably the older compilers would process the bytes of the string as if
> >> they
> >> were individual 8-bit characters and would pass them through unchanged, so
> >> the
> >> run-time string would be
On 4/30/20 2:05 PM, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
>> Could we have a macro to be used only in source code encoded via UTF-8?
>> Presumably the older compilers would process the bytes of the string as if
>> they
>> were individual 8-bit characters and would pass them through unchanged, so
>> the
Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 22:54 Uhr schrieb Paul Eggert :
>
> On 4/30/20 6:08 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > These not-so-new compilers don't perform
> > character set conversion; you have to provide the numeric value of each
> > byte yourself (either as escapes, or by enumerating the bytes of the
> >
On 4/30/20 6:08 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> These not-so-new compilers don't perform
> character set conversion; you have to provide the numeric value of each
> byte yourself (either as escapes, or by enumerating the bytes of the
> string one by one).
Could we have a macro to be used only in source
Hi Marc,
> I was hoping that compilers not supporting enough of C11
> would have some other way to translate from the source file encoding
> to UTF-8, which could be exploited by Gnulib.
No, that's not the case. These not-so-new compilers don't perform
character set conversion; you have to
Hi Bruno,
thank you very much for your reply.
Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 12:06 Uhr schrieb Bruno Haible :
[...]
> Unfortunately, we cannot provide such macros. The reason is that the
> translation from the source file's encoding to UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 must
> be done by the compiler, if you want
Hi Marc,
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> On a system that supports at least C11, I can create an UTF8-encoded
> literal string through:
>
> (uint8_t const *) u8"..."
>
> Could Gnulib abstract this into a macro so that substitutes for
> systems that do not have u8 string literals can be
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