------- Comment #2 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-08-24 20:26 ------- > FYI: I also suggested that they look into gfortran's work on implementing new > character kinds such as UTF-8.
That part is defined in the Fortran 2003 standard (optional) and the almost-ISO-approved Fortran 2008 (mandatory) thus I expect that Intel will get it sooner or later as well. Regarding the "..."C syntax: I don't quite see why using -fbackslash is not enough plus for zero terminating a string: character, parameter :: NUL = achar(0) then one can use: str = "A C-like terminated string"//NUL which should work with all Fortran compilers. And if one wants to use C escape sequences, one can use the -fbackslash option in gfortran and the -assume bscc option of ifort. Or one uses instead the predefined values of Fortran 2003 (though their names are a bit long): "This is followed by a tab"//C_HORIZONTAL_TAB//"*bing*"//C_ALERT//C_NEW_LINE//C_NULL_CHAR That should also work with all (C-binding supporting) compilers. One could also define shorter names, e.g. C_TAB = C_HORIZONTAL_TAB, C_NL = C_NEW_LINE etc. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37224
