Am Do., 30. Apr. 2020 um 22:54 Uhr schrieb Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>: > > 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.
This would allow writing a macro that prefixes "u8" to strings in compilers supporting enough of C11, skipping the prefix in compilers that pass UTF-8 encoded bytes in strings unchanged and signal an error in all other cases (hopefully only very exotic platforms), right?
