On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:27:07 -0400, Nicolas De Rico wrote: > I would like to compile files created on Windows and encoded in > "Unicode" (UTF-8 or UTF-16). Microsoft puts a little header at the > beginning of files to indicate that they are UTF-16, UTF-8, etc. I > believe that this header is standard unicode btw, not an extension!
Are you thinking of the byte order mark (BOM)? If so then this is a quirk of UTF-16 and is a Windows thing that many apps can't handle correctly ... UTF-8 should not have any headers at all and GCC should handle them fine. Try using some text editor to check it really is UTF-8. thanks -mike
