Hello- The attached patch for libcpp adds support for extended characters (e.g. UTF-8) in identifiers. A preliminary version of the patch was posted on PR c/67224 as Comment 26 (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67224#c26) and discussed with Joseph Myers. Here is an updated patch incorporating all feedback received so far. I hope it is suitable now; please let me know if I can do anything else to make it ready for you to apply. I am happy to work on it further, whatever is needed. I can't easily test on anything other than x86_64-linux though. I did bootstrap all languages and run all tests on that platform, everything was good. The (relatively short) changes to libcpp are included inline here. I attached the test cases as a gzipped patch to avoid any problems with the encoding (the test cases contain some invalid UTF-8 and also other encodings such as latin-1 as part of the testing). Thanks for taking a look at it! -Lewis libcpp/ChangeLog PR c/67224 * charset.c (_cpp_valid_utf8): New function to help lex UTF-8 tokens. * internal.h (_cpp_valid_utf8): Declare. * lex.c (forms_identifier_p): Use it to recognize UTF-8 identifiers. (_cpp_lex_direct): Handle UTF-8 in identifiers and CPP_OTHER tokens. Do all work in "default" case to avoid slowing down typical code paths. Also handle $ and UCN in the default case for consistency. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog PR c/67224 * c-c++-common/cpp/ucnid-2011-1-utf8.c: New test. * g++.dg/cpp/ucnid-1-utf8.C: New test. * g++.dg/cpp/ucnid-2-utf8.C: New test. * g++.dg/cpp/ucnid-3-utf8.C: New test. * g++.dg/cpp/ucnid-4-utf8.C: New test. * g++.dg/other/ucnid-1-utf8.C: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-1-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-10-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-11-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-12-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-13-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-14-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-15-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-2-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-3-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-4-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-6-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-7-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/cpp/ucnid-9-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-1-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-10-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-11-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-12-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-13-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-14-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-15-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-16-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-2-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-3-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-4-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-5-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-6-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-7-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-8-utf8.c: New test. * gcc.dg/ucnid-9-utf8.c: New test.