Re: Fix C4819 warning in MSVC

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-01T13:56:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> Reading 1051867.1635720347@sss.pgh.pa.us I noticed that hamerkop raise a C4819
> warning on brin_bloom.c, which is defined as:
>    "The file contains a character that cannot be represented in the current
>     code page (number).  Save the file in Unicode format to prevent data loss."
> The warning message is mostly gibberish but AFAICT the issue is that the
> headercomment includes a citation to the paper used for the hashing scheme, in
> which a footnote character has been copied from the paper (without the footnote
> copied).  Since the footnote is irrelevant for our documentation, I propose to
> remove this offending character to remove warnings from the build.

+1, but there are also C4819 warnings in fe_utils/print.c.  Can we get
rid of that too?  That one's a bit more integral to the code, since
(I think) it's complaining about the comments in the unicode_style table.
But maybe we could replace those with Unicode codes + symbol names?

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Replace unicode characters in comments with ascii