From: Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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 13:19:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTPP7_LmEWF8GSMl@SDF.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837cngs9fo.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:48:11AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii 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. For Emacs Lisp, the answer is
: YES, as the default encoding of ELisp files is UTF-8.
A few years ago I found a bug in an input form of our web app,
and I thoroughly enjoyed writing unit tests to verify the fix,
including the 'poo' emoji. This was in Scala, BTW.
Jonathon McKitrick
--
'My other computer is your Windows box.'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 13:19 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
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 [this message]
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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