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mauser:
I have the unicode version of revision 1635. i write win32 apps and it seems that the source codes are utf-8 encoded, but MSVC2003 seems not to understand utf-8 source codes, is it a c::b feature? what can you advice. Thanks in advance

mauser:
Also C::B didn't show anything when i tried to open a file with russian characters in cp1251 charset editied in another editor. It behaved the way if the file was just empty.

Michael:

--- Quote from: mauser on January 01, 2006, 07:32:29 pm ---MSVC2003 seems not to understand utf-8 source codes, is it a c::b feature? what can you advice. Thanks in advance

--- End quote ---

What do you mean by "understand"? Is the problem by loading, displaying or compiling the sources?

Michael

anonuser:
UTF-8 is ascii so it shouldn't have any problems with it.
Now when you bump up to UTF-32 or UTF-16 that's when things get interesting.

Der Meister:
MSVC seems to need a signature for Unicode-Source files. You can set this in the dialog "file->Extra save options" (or somthing similar to that). The required option is "UTF-8 with signature". If you save your file that way MSVC recognizes that it is a Unicode-Source-File and works with it without problems.

But: The signature consits of two or three bytes at the beginning of the file. Some editors show them (or at least some cryptic characters for them), some don't and some don't even open such a file. Code::Blocks opens it (at least it did at my last try) and seems to have no problems with that signature (it even doesn't show it). But the compilers I tested (gcc and icc - both on linux) refused to compile this file. They complain about invalid characters in the file. Unfortunately MSVC (the IDE as well as the compiler) seems to need this signature to properly handle Unicode-source-files.
The only solution I can give you here: Don't use Unicode-Source files if you want to use them with MSVC and other editors/compilers. In strings you can still use unicode-characters if you use their code instead that character itself, i.e. write '\x00E4' instead of 'ä'.

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