On 6 July 2016 at 19:38, Blower, Melanie wrote: > Hello, > I work for Intel on the Intel c++ compiler and we strive to be compatible with the gnu compiler. > We are processing a source file assuming utf-8 encoding and we see a string literal with illegal utf-8 encoding, such as an 8-bit character with the high bit set like 0xa3. > Testing shows that gcc is passes the illegal utf-8 character through without diagnostic message, as though it were an "extended ascii" character. > I don't see a way to enable warnings for this issue. > Please confirm that gcc handles illegal utf-8 encodings this way. Hi, I don't know the answer, Joseph Myers is probably the right person to ask, but I suspect that for a question like this you'll get a better answer on the gcc@ list.
