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

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On 10/24/2015 02:07 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 10/24/15 1:18 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
...
>> So is it possible to create a string literal containing a multibyte
>> character of more than one byte when the implementation supports only
>> the basic source character set as source character set?
>>
>> Philipp
>>
> 
> You represent the multi-byte character as the sequence of bytes in the 
> multi-byte representation.

In one sense, what you're saying is correct - but if so, it's a
multibyte representation that the C implementation itself knows nothing
about. The printf() family, the scanf() family, and every function with
an "mb" in its name assumes that one or more of the char* pointers that
it takes as an argument points at a multibyte character string. On an
implementation which doesn't support any multibyte characters, don't
expect the construct you describe to be recognized as one by any of
those functions.

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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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