Paul Eggert wrote: > I was thinking about the case where one develops and normally builds on > systems > that assume UTF-8 source code (perhaps because a build system is old and just > compiles the bytes unchecked), but that on occasion a builder might translate > all the source code to (say) EUC-JP for whatever reason, and then compile on a > newer platform that supports the u8 prefix. > > Admittedly the scenario is unlikely.
Yes, this is unlikely. In a world where people routinely do a "git pull" from upstream repositories and send patches or pull requests upstream, every automated downstream manipulation of the source code - even as small as transforming CR/LF to LF - becomes a PITA. Bruno
