[SG16-Unicode] [isocpp-core] What is the proper term for the locale dependent run-time character set/encoding used for the character classification and conversion functions?

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Tue Aug 13 19:08:37 CEST 2019


On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 09:55:07 PDT Corentin wrote:
> (if anyone is thinking about that, I don't recommend it. You're going to run
> into size limits: ICC at 512kB and MSVC at 256kB. Use something like xxd -i
> to generate a brace-delimited array instead)
> 
> Afaik that works if you use \x to escape every byte otherwise some
> implementation will mess with your data. Nothing is guaranteed to be
> passthrough otherwise

That would be ideal, but the problem I had was the unavailability of proper 
tools to convert the input into a form that the C++ compiler could consume. I 
was trying to do with a simple concatenation of a header, data, and footer.

The end result is a shell script, a Perl script and a powershell script:
	https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/263548

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