Re: utf-8 string literal

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From	Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee>
Subject	Re: utf-8 string literal
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Date	2016-03-14 17:10 -0600

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On Monday, 14 March 2016 13:50:14 UTC+2, Sascha Schwarz  wrote:
> Recently we were discussing if the following snippet is guaranteed to
> compiles on all conforming platforms.
> 
> int main() {
> 	// wikipedia's example from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> 	constexpr const char euro[] = u8"\u20ac";
> 	static_assert(
> 	       sizeof euro == 4
> 	       && euro[0] == static_cast<const char>(0b11100010)
> 	       && euro[1] == static_cast<const char>(0b10000010)
> 	       && euro[2] == static_cast<const char>(0b10101100),
> 	       "Not utf-8.");
> }
> 
> Looking at 2.3 (Basic charset) and 2.14.5 (String literals) we _think_
> so, but are not sure.

Can you elaborate what makes you unsure?


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utf-8 string literal Sascha Schwarz <s4as5z@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-14 06:49 -0600
  Re: utf-8 string literal Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-03-14 17:10 -0600
    Re: utf-8 string literal Sascha Schwarz <s4as5z@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-15 08:45 -0600

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