Re: [boost] [Boost-bugs] [ boost-Bugs-1461533 ]Non-basic-source-character-set characters conflict with MSVC

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-30 17:07:57

Foster Brereton wrote:

> I have attached a list to this email (There are 354 in the list as of
> this writing). I couldn't figure out how to attach the file to the
> bug report after-the-fact. Note that these are the most likely candidate
> source files to cause an error when building the Boost sources --
> some test cases and example sources were omitted.

Many of these are caused by a name in the copyright clause containing 
non-ASCII characters. Replacing ö and ø with o (even oe) in people's names 
doesn't seem very polite to me, and such "rechristening" may have legal 
implications.