Re: [boost] Trac support request #597

From: gchen (chengang31_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-03 05:39:04

Marshall Clow wrote:
> <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/597>
> 
> Non-basic-source-character-set characters conflict with MSVC
> 

[...]

> 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".

Could it be better/fixed if add a #pragma warning (disable : 4819) in vc's
config file boost/config/compiler/visualc.hpp?

IMO, although the compiling warning generated by these characters are
harmless,  the annoying thing is that  it could drown other useful warnings.