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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 23:43, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Certainly I would agree that the value of a /character constant/
> with a multibyte character is implementation-defined, but your
> question is about string literals, not character constants.

But we also have C11 6.4.5 verse 4: "The same considerations apply to
each element of the sequence in a string literal as if it were in an
integer character constant […]"

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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