Anyone knowingly using anything other than ASCII for their source code is a damned fool. If you need non-ASCII data, such as for text that you'll spit out at the user, that should live elsewhere in a resource file. Not only will that do away with problems like the one you're having, it will also mean that things don't break when someone using a different character set edits your code*, and you'll already be half way to supporting multiple languages.

* any bleating about "everyone should use UTF-8" will be ignored because regardless of whether people should use it the fact is that lots of people don't use it, and you want to keep the "barrier to entry" for them submitting patches that fix your bugs as low as possible.

In reply to Re^4: running scripts in Mac OS 10.4 by DrHyde
in thread running scripts in Mac OS 10.4 by rogerd

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