Hong Xu wrote:
> On 2011/8/21 23:53, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >> When build vim with MSVC, there is always a warning message like this
> >> when compiling each source file:
> >>
> >> x:\path\to\source\ascii.h : warning C4819: The file contains a character
> >> that cannot be represented in the current code page (936). Save the
> >> file in Unicode format to prevent data loss
> >>
> >> The attached patch will fix this warning partially(for ascii.h and
> >> spell.c), and I think that we should
> >> avoid using characters whose ascii code is greater than 128 in C source
> >> file. Warnings still exist in charset.c and digraph.c, and I see there
> >> are many characters that could lead to this warning, so I have not fixed
> >> this problem there.
> >
> > I can include this. However, the best solution is probably to make the
> > compiler not give the warning message.
>
> I still think that the best solution is to remove all those characters,
> even encoded in any unicode, since many compilers cannot detect
> encoding. Removing these characters could improve the compatibility of
> the source code.
In my opinion the compiler should not complain about characters in
comments.
> Besides, for Microsoft's compiler, the only way for it to regard the
> source file as UTF-8 encoded is to add BOM to the source file, which
> would not be compatible with gcc earlier than version 4.4.
Right, we will keep the source code in latin1, there is no doubt about
that. I have always had the goal to support most C compilers, old and
new.
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