On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:17:51 -0700, James Bucanek said:

>Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but the basic problem here
>is that GCC does not, and cannot, know the character encoding of
>the source file. Thus, program source code must be restricted to
>ASCII and any non-ASCII characters are unpredictable and non-portable.

That may have been the case in the past, but these days GCC assumes UTF8
unless you tell it otherwise (using -finput-charset).

Using non-ASCII chars is just fine.

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