diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/release')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/windows-utf-8.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/windows-utf-8.rst b/Help/release/dev/windows-utf-8.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64cd616 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/windows-utf-8.rst @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +windows-utf-8 +------------- + +* On Windows, CMake learned to support international characters. + This allows use of characters from multiple (spoken) languages + in CMake code, paths to source files, configured files such as + ``.h.in`` files, and other files read and written by CMake. + Because CMake interoperates with many other tools, there may + still be some limitations when using certain international + characters. + + Files written in the :manual:`cmake-language(7)`, such as + ``CMakeLists.txt`` or ``*.cmake`` files, are expected to be + encoded as UTF-8. If files are already ASCII, they will be + compatible. If files were in a different encoding, including + Latin 1, they will need to be converted. + + The Visual Studio generators now write solution and project + files in UTF-8 instead of Windows-1252. Windows-1252 supported + Latin 1 languages such as those found in North and South America + and Western Europe. With UTF-8, additional languages are now + supported. |