Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Miles Bader:

> Totally agree, which is why the unicode string constant notation in
> C++0x is a bit of a shame:  the most "obvious" notation, u"xxx", yields
> a _UTF-16_ wide-character string constant; one must write u8"yyy" to get
> a proper UTF-8 constant string. 

Is it really UTF-16?  I would expect it to result in an a wide string
constant whose characters are of type const wchar_t.

Pitty that the committee pulled the C++ standard from public view.