CWG Issue 1759 (original) (raw)

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2025-04-13

1759. UTF-8 code units in plain char

Section: 5.13.5 [lex.string]Status: C++14Submitter: United KingdomDate: 2013-09-23

N3690 comment GB 1

[Moved to DR at the February, 2014 meeting as part of document N3914.]

A UTF-8 string literal might result in a code unit with the value0x80. However, plain char is not guaranteed to be able to represent 0x80.