On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:31:50 +0200,
>   Mark de Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:53:52AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > We already have non-ascii in comments for quite a while eg in
> > marked-up_text.cpp the comment block starting at line 291 has a list of
> > Japanese glyphs. So it doesn't break compilation. 
> > 
> > It only seems the non-ascii is not in utf-8 encoding, so I would suggest
> > to change it to utf-8.

Indeed, UTF-8 is preferred.

> My concern would be that this might cause problems with some compilers.

No, I doubt this!

> I tried searching for some information and found there is a definition
> of characters required to be in the source character set. However, I am
> not sure a particular encoding is required. There also wasn't any mention

A encoding is definitively unimportant!

There could be only two problems I'm aware of:
 * Tools such as doxygen failing on such files (especially if a wrong
   input filter such as iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1 is used which stops at
   the first invalid byte)
 * Editors could not respect the current encoding and destroy it

Jens

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