[Development] Why we *have to* remove codecFor... ?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 7 de junho de 2012 11.09.52, 1+1=2 wrote:
> Hi Thiago,
> 
> The real problem is caused by MSVC2005, as they can't generate UTF-8
> exec-charset.
> 
> >From MSVC2010-SP1, they provided a workaround for this:
> 1) Source file saved with BOM
> 2) contains "#pragma execution_character_set("utf-8")"

I'd prefer UTF-8 with no BOM, no #pragma, no special compiler option.

But I suppose that a #pragma would help, though. That's exactly what I wanted 
the C++ committee to have standardised, so we could properly exchange files 
with a fixed encoding and not worry about the receiver's locale or compiler 
options.

> But now, If we using MSVC2010-Sp1 and GCC 4.6, Source files contains
> non-ascii can be used in a cross-platform way. What we need is:
> 1). Source files saved with BOM (supported by GCC too.)

GCC does not support BOMs in headers.

> 2). Add following lines:
> 
> #if _MSC_VER >= 1600
> #pragma execution_character_set("utf-8")
> #endif

That's probably the acceptable workaround.

Anyway, MSVC is now on my list of "crap". I wonder what MinGW is doing on 
Windows.

Can anyone save the (UTF-8 encoded) attached source file and run it? Don't 
forget to compile with -std=c++0x.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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