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| Subject | Re: Unicode in C Sources |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
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| From | Bart <bc@freeuk.com> |
| Message-ID | <FDB_F.222362$5X1.212868@fx06.am4> (permalink) |
| Organization | virginmedia.com |
| Date | 2020-02-05 15:59 +0000 |
On 05/02/2020 15:31, David Brown wrote:
> On 05/02/2020 15:03, Bart wrote:
>> I find the ASCII "$" extremely useful in C, especially for generated C
>> code, but it's not standard C and while gcc allows "$", some compilers
>> don't like it.
>>
>> Notably Tiny C, yet Unicode identifiers are supported. Bizarre.
>>
>
> Does Tiny C support Unicode identifiers?
Well, it compiles this program that Ben posted:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main()
{
double φ = 0.5, ω2 = 0.2, θ = -0.5, ω3 = 0.1;
printf("%g\n", cos(φ) * ω2 - sin(θ) * ω3);
}
(Which uses Greek phi, omega and theta in case they don't come out.)
Although it doesn't like the byte-order-mark at the start of the file,
which Notepad seems to insert even for UTF8.
> I can well see there being more use for allowing the odd symbols that
> are currently disallowed in C identifiers, but which are easy to type on
> many keyboards. That would include @ £ § $ € (some of these are ASCII,
> others not). I'd imagine they could be very useful for generated code -
> stick an @ in front of each identifier from the original source and
> you'd never have conflicts with keywords in C that happen to coincide
> with valid identifiers in the original language, and you could easily
> distinguish "source" identifiers from extra ones in the generated C.
> For manually written code, you could use them for handling external
> names (such as database columns, field names in files, or whatever)
> without conflict with keywords.
Yes, that's what I use in my language, but I chose '`' (back-tick).
Without that I it would be difficult to call C's exit() function as a
foreign function, as 'exit' is a keyword.
(@ has another use; a sole $ is a keyword (A[$] is a way to access the
last element of A); € isn't on my keyboard (I have to type Alt+128),
while the others aren't ASCII. £ used to be in the ANSI 8-bit character
set, with a few other useful characters, but now it's Unicode.)
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Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-01 17:12 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-01 17:37 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2020-02-01 20:43 +0300
Re: Unicode in C Sources Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-02-01 10:57 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 16:58 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-02 17:05 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 19:52 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-02 19:20 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-02-03 12:38 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 09:16 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 15:32 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2020-02-03 09:01 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-02-03 21:15 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-04 02:06 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-04 02:19 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-04 02:50 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-04 08:16 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-01 18:10 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-01 15:19 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <invalid@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 00:13 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <invalid@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 00:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-02 00:24 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-02 08:14 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 17:59 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 14:44 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 21:49 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 16:58 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 15:33 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 15:38 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 10:25 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 19:11 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 15:59 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 16:51 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-04 16:05 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-19 12:17 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 17:09 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 14:46 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 21:39 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 17:07 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 13:12 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 16:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-03 16:47 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:36 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 23:56 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:06 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 22:25 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:29 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-19 12:30 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-19 14:19 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 07:50 -0700
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-04-02 08:16 -0700
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-03 22:33 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 23:05 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 23:10 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 18:05 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2020-02-04 09:38 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 18:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-04 16:07 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-02 14:54 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2020-02-03 15:10 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 07:47 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 14:00 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 16:45 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-02-03 17:54 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 22:36 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-04 16:33 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-04 16:45 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-04 13:02 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-04 23:18 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 11:07 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 14:49 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-16 06:23 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 10:54 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 14:51 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 14:03 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 16:31 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 15:59 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-02-05 16:02 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 16:59 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 18:02 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-05 19:37 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 19:37 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-05 21:02 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2020-02-06 10:34 +1300
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 23:10 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-06 13:53 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-06 13:26 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-06 07:27 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 23:03 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Mikko Rauhala <mjr@iki.fi> - 2020-02-06 10:46 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 21:47 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 22:50 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-02-07 00:25 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-07 02:07 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 16:26 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-04-18 03:58 +0000
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