[cfe-dev] C99/C++ UCN (Universal Character Name) Support

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 27, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Neil Booth wrote:
>> Unfortunately, Unix doesn't appear to have any standard support for  
>> this
>> type of conversion (which surprised me).
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this type of conversion?
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> Are you working on accepting them in identifiers too?
>
> It's nice, both in literals and identifiers, to permit multibyte
> characters from the current locale too, interchangably with UCNs.
>
> Does clang implement execution charsets, or is it mandating it be
> UTF-8?

The first step is UTF8 only, and only accepted in string literals.

-Chris