[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?

Corentin corentin.jabot at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 18:47:01 CEST 2019


On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 6:28 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:29:07 PDT Steve Downey wrote:
> > It would probably be difficult to mandate, since by the time you get
> around
> > to seeing u{8,16,32} everything has already been converted to internal
> > encoding, which is essentially indistinguishable from Unicode as you
> can't
> > tell the difference between *universal-character-name
> > <http://eel.is/c++draft/lex.charset#nt:universal-character-name> *and an
> > extended source character.
>
> Make it no-diagnostic-required. Some compilers may complain, which is
> enough.
> And there are other tools (lints) that can be used too..
>

That what already suggested by Zach, it seems like an excellent idea

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