Hi Alisdair,

Thank you for the feedback. That's a very good suggestion, thank you. It ties into the suggested change to processing of UCNs that we've discussed a few times.

When you have a u8"" literal, the associated literal encoding is UTF-8. When you have a 'plain' "" string literal, the associated literal encoding is implementation-defined.

Best regards,

                      Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alisdair Meredith <alisdairm_at_me.com>
> Sent: 24 August 2020 17:29
> To: SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
> Cc: Peter Brett <pbrett_at_cadence.com>; Corentin <corentin.jabot_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SG16] P2194R0 The character set of C++ source code is Unicode
>
> EXTERNAL MAIL
>
>
> Minor suggestion on the wording,
>
> You strike the mapping of non-basic source code characters to
> universal-character-name, including the cross-reference to such
> mappings reverting in raw string literals (5.4). I suggest making
> a matching edit to strike the reference in (5.4)p3 as well, so that
> the only thing reverted is line splicing in phase 2.
>
> That said, with these changes, I am curious what the difference
> is between a u8 string literal and a plain ‘char’ string literal, as
> the contents of that literal are now going to be unicode source
> Text (rather than requesting a mapping from source to unicode
> of literal’s contents)?
>
> AlisdairM
>
> > On Aug 24, 2020, at 08:31, Peter Brett via SG16 <sg16_at_lists.isocpp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In this week's meeting, we are going to discuss the remaining
> > proposals from P2178R1 "Misc lexing and string handling improvements".
> > In particular, we will discuss proposal 9:
> >
> > Proposal 9: Reaffirming Unicode as the character set of the
> > internal representation
> >
> > In anticipation of a lively discussion, Corentin and I have written a
> > short new paper which will be appearing in the September mailing.
> >
> > P2194R0 The character set of C++ source code is Unicode
> >
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2194R0.pdf__;!!
> EHscmS1ygiU1lA!WEw_cTYDWjEYbwMusvXFTtvDdDjE3jRwp1m4_TAlO-8sXXE-
> 55f2FH74uxdpLQ$
> >
> > We hope that the study group finds this contribution helpful and
> > informative.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > --
> > SG16 mailing list
> > SG16_at_[hidden]
> >
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.isocpp.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sg
> 16__;!!EHscmS1ygiU1lA!WEw_cTYDWjEYbwMusvXFTtvDdDjE3jRwp1m4_TAlO-8sXXE-
> 55f2FH7Fxs6f2w$