[llvm-dev] Is LLVM's C-Api Unicode aware?

[Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev]

On 9/8/2017 1:48 AM, Alexander Benikowski via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi,
> From what i can tell by looking at the C-Api and its use of 
> CharPointers. It seems LLVM C-Api(and by that LLVM itself i think) is 
> not Unicode aware? So only plain Ascii-Characters?
>
> Currently translating the headers, and just wanted to be sure, since 
> "char" is usually 1 Byte IIRC.

A lot of the APIs actually just take null-terminated byte arrays. For 
example, symbol names are allowed to be an arbitrary sequence of bytes.

-Eli

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