Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Message-ID: <1989Mar15.164729.21457@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1680@levels.sait.edu.au> <1153@auspex.UUCP> <9776@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Mar13.163731.21908@utzoo.uucp> <399@helios.prosys.se>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 16:47:29 GMT

In article <399@helios.prosys.se> ath@prosys.se writes:
>...that the contents of a comment is examined to identify multibyte
>...characters only in order to recognize '*/' as multibyte characters
>
>This seems to imply that there is a standard multibyte character set,
>recognized by conforming compilers. Is there?

No.  However, ANSI C provides for the possibility that a specific compiler
might implement such a thing.  The standard imposes a few minor constraints
on it (notably, a '\0' cannot appear within a multibyte character), but
does not dictate precisely how it works.
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