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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Localization problem with UTF entities

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:28:27 -0700
On Mar 24, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Thomas Wiens <th.wiens@xxxxxx> wrote:

> 1) Before calling lupdate use scripting/temporary files and replace <"
> UTF8_HORIZONTAL_ELLIPSIS> with <"…">, and all other UTF8 entities used
> in the .cpp source files.

Would that work if the compiler is not treating the text file encoding of the C source file as UTF-8?

I don't think all compilers we use treat the source files as being in UTF-8 (MSVC, for example, doesn't do so, as far as I know).