On: Unicode programming, with examples in C

[jhasse]

Btw: In C99 you don't have to declare all your variables at the top. You can also use // comments.

[vardump → jhasse]

We embedded devs might be able to start consistently using C99 in about fifty years or so. Hopefully.

Lots of development kits barely support C89.

[anilakar → vardump]

Ironically, most legacy C environments are commercial in nature. Open source tools seem to have a lot better track record in this regard.

[goto11 → vardump]

Couldn't pre-processors be used to add such features? (I don't know anything about embedded development.)

[mbel → goto11]

CPP would not be enough, you would need full C99-to-C89 compiler with parsing to AST.

[jhasse → vardump]

But the ICU headers require C99 anyway.

[begriffs → jhasse]

As it says in the article:

> The examples in this article conform to the C89 standard, but we specify C99 in the Makefile because the ICU header files use C99-style (//) comments.