Unicode operators
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 23 21:34:18 PDT 2008
Thomas Moran wrote:
> Since C++ permits unicode identifiers I actually did some experiments a
> few months ago to see what the compiler support was like. The conclusion
> was that only MSVC9 can deal with them, GCC4 and ICC10 (EDG I suppose)
> both choked. You can actually call a variable "αβγ" in VC9 and the
> program compiles. There's unfortunately some confusion over whether
> UTF-8 encoded files should have a BOM - MSVC doesn't parse them properly
> if they don't, but GCC chokes on the BOM. I think this would have to be
> either specified or handled flexibly in D front ends.
It already is handled properly in D. Try it out!
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