<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57367>57367</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            llvm-rc chokes on cp1252
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          apodtele
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    ```
[build] llvm-rc: Error in VERSIONINFO statement (ID 1):
[build] Non-ASCII 8-bit codepoint (169) can't occur in a non-Unicode string
```
This error was reported to [us](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1177) while compiling [ftver.rc](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/blob/master/src/base/ftver.rc). The file specifies cp1252 which encodes © as "\251..." or decimal 169. This is all legal and understood by `rc` and `windres`. Non-Unicode strings are not limited to ASCII.
</pre>
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