Re: [boost] [inspect] Hall of Shame plus non-ASCII characters

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 12:22:31

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
>> * A check for non-ASCII characters in source files has been added by
>> Marshall Clow. It is picking up non-ASCII characters in people's names
>> in copyright messages;
> 
> Why not simply allow comments to be in utf-8?

UTF-8 causes exactly the same problem; the high-order bit is sometimes 
on, and that causes errors or warnings with some compiler / operating 
system combinations

--Beman