On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 4:46 AM Tony V E <tvaneerd_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 8:57 AM Corentin Jabot <corentinjabot_at_[hidden]>
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>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 14:52, Ville Voutilainen <
>> ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:35, Corentin Jabot via Core
>>> <core_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> > Chiming in with my favorite solution:> Forbid u8/u16/u32 literals in
>>> non unicode encoded files
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>>> But presumably not the ones that look like u8"\U1234" ?
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>> Yes, there is no reason to disallow that as It can't be misinterpreted by
>> neither the compiler or people (and quite a lot of code would needlessly
>> break)
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> I find your lack of faith in people's ability to misinterpret something
> disturbing.
> :-)
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😁 (Challenging your mail client)


\Uxxxx is unambiguous.

u8"é" is ambiguous. Both people and the compiler may interpret that in a
variety of ways. Notably if I have utf-8 in that file, which I wrote on
Linux, but then the msvc compiler thinks it's windows 1252...
Mojibake.


People also seem to be confused

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23471935/how-are-u8-literals-supposed-to-work


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> Tony
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