Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #597: Non-basic-source-character-set characters conflict with MSVC

Gennaro Prota — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:06:53 GMT

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I'm surprised that VC8 (2005) still gets this wrong. I've
changed the data-type to "Support Requests" as this is a
compiler problem: non basic source-set characters should be
trivially handled in translation phase 1 :-( Anyhow, could
you please tell us:
* your system region
* the number (Cxxxx) of the warning you get
?

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akalin — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:58:11 GMT

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I get this same problem.  I'm using the Japanese region and
the warning I get is 4819.  Per the discussion in
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20060403.042624.2a5fe361.en.html
, I'm sure it's the copyright symbols that are causing this
problem as they don't show up as copyright symbols for me.
(a half-width katakana 'u', if you're curious)

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anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:38:13 GMT

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Same problem here. My system codepage is Chinese(codepage 936), and some header files can't be displayed properly. for example, in utility/enable_if.hpp, the copyright mark and the author's name are not right. This make vc2005 emit lots of warnings(c4819).

I have to surpress the warning manually or change the boost header file myself for successful building. I believe this happens on all Chinese, Japanese, Korean windows system.

I suggest use only basic source set characters in header files. It's simply not possible to display every name correctly unless the file is in unicode.

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Daryle Walker — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:32:29 GMT

keywords source character MSVC added
component None → Building Boost
severity → Showstopper

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Daryle Walker — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:39:47 GMT

severity Showstopper → Problem

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Marshall Clow — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:07:42 GMT

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resolution → duplicate
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This is a duplicate of #1736, and if you look there, you can see progress on this front. We are working to eliminate as many of these warning as possible, however, I am loathe to change author's names in the source. Things like changing © --> (c) are easy, and we're getting those.