On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Janek Kozicki wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask - perhaps you know - what is the status of adding the > UTF-8 support for identifier names in GCC, for c++? > > It is according to http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cpplib.html that such > support is planned.
That page generally appears very out of date; it's not been updated since 2002. I have a 15-point todo list for extended identifiers, the very last point of which is enabling -fextended-identifiers by default for C99, C1X and C++. This represents the results of analysis of the current state of GCC against the requirements for extended identifiers I agreed with Zack (PR 9449 comment 21). Fixing all the various cases required is however low priority. > If you know that there is some patch somewhere floating around, even > a very experimental one, I would like to try it. (debian squeeze) If you wish to experiment with extended identifiers, use -fextended-identifiers. This only supports UCNs in identifiers, not extended characters represented other than with UCNs. Point 14 out of 15 on my list is support for actual UTF-8 in identifiers. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
