On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:35, Corentin Jabot via Core
<core@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
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> Chiming in with my favorite solution:> Forbid u8/u16/u32 literals in non unicode encoded files
But presumably not the ones that look like u8"\U1234" ?
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)
I find your lack of faith in people's ability to misinterpret something disturbing.
:-)
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\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