Re: make cannot handle prerequisites that contain a colon

[Andreas Buening]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> The idea I had involves changing escaped special characters like spaces
> into "impossible" byte values in make's internal string representation.
> That way all of make's current manipulation would continue to work
> as-is: when searching for whitespace to break up words for example it
> would not see the "impossible" byte values as whitespace, so it wouldn't
> break on that character.

If I've been told correctly, then the special about UTF-8 is
that is takes all 7 bit characters as they are, i.e., a space
is still a space. Only 8 bit character can have a special
meaning.


Bye,
Andreas