Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 10/21/23 13:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:48:10 +0000
> > From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > > AFAIK, C/C++ compilers support this only in recent versions.
> > Would you know if there is support for languages in Gnu GCC ?
> Depends on the version, and I don't remember which one started
> supporting it, sorry.


Recent versions (after GCC 10, and probably a few versions before) are 
supporting UTF-8 in comments and literal strings.

> > > For Emacs Lisp, the answer is YES, as the default encoding of ELisp files is 
> > > UTF-8.
> > My difficulty is how am I going to introduce them to an elisp source file.


M-x insert-char

or copy/paste on Linux from a charmap or a browser.

> Just type ? followed by the character, which you can type via "C-x 8 RET"
> followed by the Unicode codepoint in hex.

NB. My pet open source software (work in progress) is the RefPerSys 
GPLv3+ inference engine project on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/

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