Re: [boost] MSVC doesn't like some high-ASCII characters on non-US systems

From: Nigel Stewart (ns_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 15:12:05

 > We are getting warnings when trying to compile Boost source files with
 > MSVC 2003 and 2005 when there are high-ASCII characters in the
 > sources. The reported problem only shows up when the computer's region
 > is set to Japanese, but there could be other affected regions as well.

Boost/1.33.0/boost $ file *.hpp | grep -v ASCII
lexical_cast.hpp:              ISO-8859 C++ program text
multi_index_container_fwd.hpp: ISO-8859 C program text
multi_index_container.hpp:     ISO-8859 C program text
progress.hpp:                  ISO-8859 C++ program text
property_map_iterator.hpp:     ISO-8859 C++ program text
ref.hpp:                       ISO-8859 C++ program text
token_functions.hpp:           ISO-8859 C++ program text
tokenizer.hpp:                 ISO-8859 C++ program text

 > Has anyone else seen this problem? Are there other potential fixes
 > other than removing all high-ASCII characters from the source files?

Perhaps converting the boost headers into utf-8, rather than
a mixture of ASCII and ISO-8859, would be more region-neutural.
I don't know if boost has standardised on an encoding, but
being Latin-1 centric is probably not necessary or intentional.

Nigel