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Re: Hack for MSC8 and "newline in constant" errors [message #10441 is a reply to message #10440]

Mon, 09 July 2007 14:27

kfeng
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Registered: July 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan

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Actually, it's not just Chinese. I suspect any CJK-based Windows system compiling under MSC8 will have problems (MSC71 seems to be ok). At home, I have a Japanese based WinXP and at work, a Japanese based Windows 2000 machine - both fail to compile with the same errors under MSC8.

It messes too many things up to switch to English just to compile upp so I just comment out the Localization.

The percentage of new users who are configured like this is probably not high, but it is definitely a turn-off for new developers. If there is a way to "just get it to build" (using Macros, even?), I would recommend committing it into the release until MS fixes MSC8... ...or at least put it in some "Known Problems" or "Readme" file so developers can use a hack-around.

I don't mean to be nit-picking about this as it looks like a Microsoft bug, but it would be a pity to lose new developers due to a glitch like this... ...the overall upp system is amazingly clean and intuitive (including the IDE - take some getting used to, but it's actually quite good), and I'm discovering new and interesting implementations of the upp GUI every day.

Keep up the good work!

- Ken

[Updated on: Mon, 09 July 2007 14:32]

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