Spanish single characters recognized as multi-character

Spanish single characters recognized as multi-character

[Salvador Ramirez]

Hello,

     I have a problem that I can reproduce with the following simple 
example:

--------
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    printf("%d - %c\n", 'ñ', 'ñ');
}
--------

  if I compile that program I get the following message warning from GCC:

warning: multi-character character constant

  for each time I use 'X' where X is either: á,é,í,ó,ú,ü or ñ, which are 
spanish characters non-ascii. So it seems that gcc does not recognize 
these characters as "single characters", but if so why? how could I 
correct the program the program above?

  I am using linux redhat 9.

Any help would be very appreciated,

---sram
Salvador Ramírez Flandes

Re: Spanish single characters recognized as multi-character

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Salvador,

What format is your text editor saving your files?

Try using one of the ISO 8859 flavors, instead of ISO 10646 (encoded in UTF8, I presume).

HTH,
--Eljay 

Re: Spanish single characters recognized as multi-character

[Salvador Ramirez]

Hello Eljay,

Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Salvador,
> 
> What format is your text editor saving your files?
> Try using one of the ISO 8859 flavors, instead of ISO 10646 (encoded in UTF8, I presume).

You are right, redhat linux 9 uses by default UTF-8. I am using vi 
editor and I suppose that it is enconding the literal characters I use 
on the UTF-8 encoding.
Since a response I received from  lrtaylor@micron.com I think I should 
learn a little more about the C wide-char functions, I am on that.
Thanks Lyle and Eljay,

---sram
Salvador Ramirez Flandes

RE: Spanish single characters recognized as multi-character

[lrtaylor]

What happens if you use wprintf instead?

wprintf(L"%d - %c\n", 'ñ', 'ñ');

Although, I don't recall for sure whether the L goes before or after the string constant...

Cheers,
Lyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Salvador Ramirez [mailto:sram@profc.udec.cl] 
 --------
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    printf("%d - %c\n", 'ñ', 'ñ');
}
--------

  if I compile that program I get the following message warning from GCC:

warning: multi-character character constant