Commit c1e12409 by Geoffrey Keating Committed by Geoffrey Keating

cpp.texi (Character sets): Document that we do support input files to be in any character set.

	* doc/cpp.texi (Character sets): Document that we do support
	input files to be in any character set.

From-SVN: r111401
parent 357e7a82
2005-10-20 Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@apple.com>
* doc/cpp.texi (Character sets): Document that we do support
input files to be in any character set.
2006-02-23 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
* tree.h (PHI_ARG_NONZERO): Remove.
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......@@ -251,12 +251,8 @@ processing. That set is what the C standard calls the @dfn{source}
character set. It must be isomorphic with ISO 10646, also known as
Unicode. CPP uses the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.
At present, GNU CPP does not implement conversion from arbitrary file
encodings to the source character set. Use of any encoding other than
plain ASCII or UTF-8, except in comments, will cause errors. Use of
encodings that are not strict supersets of ASCII, such as Shift JIS,
may cause errors even if non-ASCII characters appear only in comments.
We plan to fix this in the near future.
The character sets of the input files are specified using the
@option{-finput-charset=} option.
All preprocessing work (the subject of the rest of this manual) is
carried out in the source character set. If you request textual
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