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

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On 24.10.2015 20:07, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 10/24/15 1:18 PM, 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?
>>
>> I can't just write the character directly, since it is not in the basic
>> source character set.
>>
>> And I don't think I can use an escape sequence: Verse 4 of section 6.4.5
>> of the C11 standard states "The same considerations apply to each
>> element of the sequence in a string literal as if it were in an integer
>> character constant […]". I guess that means that 6.4.4.4, verse 10
>> applies, and thus the value of the character constant has to be
>> something representable in a char.
>>
>> 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.

OK, works for string literals prefixed by u8, since those are UTF-8. But
for other string literals the encoding is not fixed by the standard.

Philipp

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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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