Re: [Boost-users] There is a error in the filelicence_info.cppundertools\bcp

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-20 04:39:22

> The character code for the last character before the closing quote is
> 0xA9, which might be the start of some composite character in the
> encoding you use locally, swallowing the following closing double
> quote.
>
> Anyway, I think the code in question is at least very bad style
> because is uses a non-ASCII character, which gives you all sort of
> portability problems. Maybe it should be replaced with
> "Copyright|\\(c\\)|\xA9".

I think that's right, thanks for letting me know what the character code is, 
saves me looking it up :-)

And this reminds me: we really should have regression tests for the tools 
integrated into the test framefwork, it would have picked this up earlier.

Thanks,

John.