Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program

[Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@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.'