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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 20:57, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, it has been since C99:
> 
>     #include <stdio.h>
> 
>     int
>     main(){
>         char foo[] = "\u1234";
>         printf( "sizeof foo = %zu\n", sizeof foo );
>         return  0;
>     }
> 
> Running this on my system prints 'sizeof foo = 4'.
> 

This looks like implementation-defined behaviour by verse 10 of section
6.4.4.4 of the C11 standard to me.
What compiler did you use?

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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