Guy Harris wrote:
Graham Bloice wrote:
As per the VS2005 help:
C4819 occurs when an ANSI source file is compiled on a system with a
codepage that cannot represent all characters in the file.
To resolve C4819, save the file in Unicode format.
So, you either use a codepage that does support ANSI, or you somehow
convert all the files to unicode which would be a real pain when ever
you update your sources to the latest.
...or we find all the non-ASCII characters in the files (or, at least,
the ones that cause problems; I don't know whether MSVC has problems
with comments) and get rid of them. I've removed non-ASCII characters
from at least some character strings - they don't belong there, as there's
1) no guarantee that they can be displayed on all platforms (especially
with GTK+ 1.2.x, which doesn't use UTF-8)
and
2) no guarantee that they'll be interpreted the way you want by the
compiler (will it interpret them as UTF-8, or ISO 8859/1, or some other
ISO 8859/x, or some EUC double-byte character set, or some Windows code
page, or...?).
Excuse my little englander ignorance, but is the problem is occurring
because the files have characters from outside the 7 bit ASCII character
set? If this is correct we should add a suitable entry to README.developer.
It would be nice if there was an automated way of checking this (apart
from using the MS compiler) for all committed files.
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Regards,
Graham Bloice