On 4/30/20 6:08 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > These not-so-new compilers don't perform > character set conversion; you have to provide the numeric value of each > byte yourself (either as escapes, or by enumerating the bytes of the > string one by one).
Could we have a macro to be used only in source code encoded via UTF-8? Presumably the older compilers would process the bytes of the string as if they were individual 8-bit characters and would pass them through unchanged, so the run-time string would be UTF-8 too.