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Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal?

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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 6:18:56 PM UTC+1, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>> Assuming my implementation supports the basic source character set, how
>> can I create a string literal that contains multibyte character
>> consisting of multiple bytes?
>> 
> Depends how you want to pass the data about.
>
> You can use the L prefix L"Wide chars"; to create a 16-bit string
> literal.

A string literal prefixed with L represent a sequence of wchar_t
elements.  wchar_t is typically 16 bits on Windows, but 32 bits on
Unix-like systems.

>          Or you use use UTF-8 and write char *str = "utf-8 is ascii
> with extended characters like aleph (\xe2\x84\xb5)";

Or, if your compiler supports it, u8"..." is a UTF-8 string literal,
u"..." represents a sequence of char16_t, and U"..." represents a
sequence of char32_t.  These are new in C11.

> The second method is OK for a few embedded non-English characters,
> but not human-maintainable for flowing text, so realistically you'll
> need a tool to generate the literals.

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How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-24 19:18 +0200
  Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-24 14:06 -0400
    Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-24 20:39 +0200
      Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-24 15:05 -0400
  Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-24 14:07 -0400
    Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-24 14:33 -0400
    Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-24 21:30 +0200
  Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-24 11:11 -0700
    Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-24 13:44 -0700
  Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-24 19:18 +0100
  Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 11:57 -0700
    Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-24 21:32 +0200
      Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-24 15:54 -0400
      Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 14:43 -0700
        Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2015-10-25 10:38 +0100
          Re: How to get a character consisting of multiple bytes into a string literal? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-25 10:05 -0700

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