[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Use utf-8 for all source files?

Chris Roccati roccati at pobox.com
Wed Feb 28 11:53:17 CET 2007


On 28 Feb 2007, at 11:41 , Diego Biurrun wrote:

> What source files are affected?  The idea is really that all sources
> should be ASCII and all the rest UTF-8.  I think this is the  
> decision we
> came to when discussing this some time ago because some (legacy?)
> compilers might possibly choke on UTF-8.  latin-1 is bad, this  
> needs to
> be fixed in any case.

Anything that chokes on UTF8 in string literals and comments has  
difficulties to handle characters with code greater than 0x7f, this  
means it would choke on latin-1 as well..





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