On 26/08/2021 03.42, Hubert Tong via SG16 wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:02 PM JF Bastien via Ext <ext_at_[hidden] <mailto:ext_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
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> Hello 'EWG',
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> Next week's telecon will cover these papers:
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> * P2295 <http://wg21.link/P2295> Support for UTF-8 as a portable source file encoding and
> * P2362 <http://wg21.link/P2362> Remove non-encodable wide character literals and multicharacter wide character literals
>
> I was asked in today's SG16 telecon to comment on the wording in P2362 ahead of the EWG telecon tomorrow (that I unfortunately will be missing).
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> For context, all changes in the paper are to [lex.ccon].
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> In paragraph 2, the following additional change would be appropriate (since there is only one applicable base kind now):
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> their respective base kinds => the base kind
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> For the change to bullet 3.2.2, the discussion in the paper does not propose a change to the status quo regarding numeric escapes. The proposed change to this bullet should be omitted. That is, L'\x80000000' remains valid when wchar_t has a signed 32-bit underlying type.
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> The rest of the changes appear sufficient and in line with my understanding of the consensus out of SG16.

I would prefer to keep "ordinary" in the non-encodable and multicharacter literals.
In my view, the "base kind" is the "ordinary character literal", and we slap
adjectives on top of that. It is confusing if the term of the base kind
changes.

Jens