>>>>> Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> driver.h:70: error: \u2018BOUND_BOX\u2019 does not name a type >>>>> make: *** [OBJ.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass6_wxvdigit_wrap.o] Error 1
>>>> "\u2018" -- unicode characters sneaking into what should be a flat >>>> ASCII file? >>> Those are just the quotes added by the compiler. Recent versions of >>> gcc have taken to using gratuitous non-ASCII punctuation in >>> diagnostic messages. >> Is it due to a locale setting? It seems reasonable for GCC to put >> UTF-8 quotes when asked for such a locale. > ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so there's no problem with using the > ASCII quote characters in that situation. That's the problem -- ASCII lacks single quote characters. $ zcat /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ANSI_X3.4-1968.gz <code_set_name> ANSI_X3.4-1968 ... ... % alias ASCII ... <U0027> /x27 APOSTROPHE ... <U0060> /x60 GRAVE ACCENT ... $ > It might be different if the locale was one which doesn't normally > use "..." for quotations. E.g. using «...» in a French locale or > 「...」 in a Japanese locale might be reasonable. But the error message > was quite clearly in English. > If it was using non-ASCII characters in the C/POSIX locale, that > would be an unequivocal bug. In C/POSIX locale (as well as in the rest of the ASCII world), APOSTROPHE and GRAVE ACCENT are traditionally used to represent single quote characters. However, there's no need in such a behaviour when the character set has ``real'' single quote characters. $ zcat /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz <code_set_name> UTF-8 ... % alias ISO-10646/UTF-8 CHARMAP ... <U2018> /xe2/x80/x98 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK <U2019> /xe2/x80/x99 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ... $ > As it is, it's merely a poor choice. I'd say that it's a behaviour consistent with that of other applications. I cannot imagine a case where this behaviour could be actually useful (other than inserting the program output into a UTF-8 printed document), but it's consistent. PS. Is `utf8' a valid MIME charset name? From: Glynn Clements <...> Subject: Re: GCC vs. locale Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:53:18 +0000 ... Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My Gnus seemingly misrecognized it. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user