Re: [boost] Why doesn't the guideline specify character-set for source files?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-21 13:45:09

on Thu Jul 19 2007, Shintaro Sakahara <sakahara-AT-dream.big.or.jp> wrote:

> In Boost Library Guidelines, there aren't any specified character-sets.
> (are there?)
>
> Since some names of authors written in source files include high-ASCII
> characters that are incompatible with some other character-sets, they
> are unreadable for users setting non-ASCII character-sets as default
> like me (Japanese), and also compilers would generate warnings about it.
>
> Therefore, I think the guideline should specify character-set or limit
> available characters to low-ASCII only for source files to standardize
> way to read and process them. (To limit to low-ASCII is better for me.)

Sounds OK to me.  Objections, anyone?
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