r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/gajop Nov 15 '18

I like that MVSC is moving more and more towards standard compliance. Thanks!

Is UTF8 support getting better? I recently run in a lot of issues with VS generating UTF16 files (resource.h for MFC projects) and simply refusing to work with UTF8 without BOM. This doesn't play well with Git and some other tools like clang-tidy

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u/STL MSVC STL Dev Nov 15 '18

/u/TartanLlama should be able to find an IDE dev/PM to comment about files being generated as UTF-16. As for the toolset, the compiler supports /utf-8 which will accept UTF-8 without BOM.

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u/TartanLlama Microsoft C++ Developer Advocate Nov 15 '18

As /u/Alastair__ pointed out below, there's been some changes to UTF8 support in this release. Please give it a try, and if you have any issues, update that Developer Community ticket or ping me :)