From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:48:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GlBgRtEKvLziOzruz5OuFlcSRzfiN4YVXNlbSW-JdwEBN5y_rPlB8yW3Ky-omwUu2tUMKmuOTLP6vUwD4dXUr-yobkxFE2dUtUNu8NSYyCk=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837cngs9fo.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Saturday, October 21st, 2023 at 7:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:53:38 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> >
> > Is it allowed to have UTF-8 characters in comments of a program (elisp, fortran, C, C++, latex) ?
>
>
> There's no such thing as "UTF-8 characters". UTF-8 is an encoding of
> Unicode character set.
>
> If you want to know whether language compilers and interpreters accept
> UTF-8 encoded characters, then you will need to consult the
> documentation of the relevant compiler.
> AFAIK, C/C++ compilers support this only in recent versions.
Would you know if there is support for languages in Gnu GCC ?
> For Emacs Lisp, the answer is YES, as the default encoding of ELisp files is UTF-8.
My difficulty is how am I going to introduce them to an elisp source file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 22:53 UTF-8 characters in comments of a program Heime
2023-10-21 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 10:48 ` Heime [this message]
2023-10-21 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:36 ` Heime
2023-10-21 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:51 ` Heime
2023-10-23 15:39 ` Leo Butler
2023-10-21 15:54 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-10-21 13:19 ` Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-10-21 13:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 11:04 ` Heime
2023-10-22 11:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 13:44 ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-23 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-21 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg
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