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Re: What does "Execution Character Set" refer to these days?

From: Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:15:17 +0200
On 29/04/2022 03.01, Steve Downey wrote:
> I'm also fine with locale having to encode all of the basic literal character set, because the alternative is broken, and if your system somehow lets you do that, it's not C++'s fault that this is broken. As we discussed with the portable character set, POSIX requires this already.

Not every system targeted by C++ is conforming to POSIX,
so that's at most a weak argument.

Jens

Received on 2022-04-29 05:15:21