[boost] Trac support request #597

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-02 13:43:02

<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/597>

Non-basic-source-character-set characters conflict with MSVC

There exist high-ascii characters in the Boost sources that cannot be 
converted to the local region for a given computer because the 
context of the originating region of the source is not known. Thus, 
these high-ascii characters may not have a proper mapping, and a 
warning will be emitted by MSVC 2003 and 2005. This should be 
considered a failure case because, though low, it is still emitting 
an alert. Thus, without the correct region set on your system, the 
Boost sources fail to build.

I believe all the characters referenced are in comments.

Is this worth fixing?
Does anyone care?

It appears that 90% of problem is the copyright symbol. A quick grep 
of the boost header files
shows about 34 instances of '©', changing them to '(c)' would be easy.

The rest of the problem are in author's names, for example see 
Jaako's name in <boost/utility/enable_if.hpp".

My recommendation is to close this as "wont fix".
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