On 6/12/20 5:00 AM, Corentin Jabot via SG16 wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 18:00 Thiago Macieira via SG16
> <sg16_at_[hidden] <mailto:sg16_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
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> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 08:53:56 PDT Tom Honermann via SG16 wrote:
> > Agreed. It would be interesting to know if WG14 members have some
> > historical perspective on this being implementation-defined. Perhaps
> > Aaron can assist in getting an answer to that question. Copying the
> > liason list...
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> Could be an ASCII-encoded source file being compiled to EBCDIC or
> vice-versa.
> The preprocessor would run in the encoding of the source file, but
> the actual
> compiler would translate into the execution character set, which
> won't match
> the source character set.
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> The source character set shouldn't matter as long as it is properly
> deduced.
> I guess it's more of an issue for tooling that do not have an
> execution encoding at all. But it doesn't appear to be an issue in
> practice.

Thanks for that observation, Corentin; that explains it for me since, as
far as I know, tools that only do preprocessing don't otherwise have a
need to be aware of or choose execution character sets.

Tom.

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> Helps with writing source code without the need for digraphs or
> trigraphs.
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