hi
i'm just writing a small program to convert a text document into an html-document and am having trouble with certain characters, for example the german umlaute (ä etc.).

i've written and saved the text file in UTF-8 and i've also written the programm in UTF-8. now gcc issues a warning when i try to compile it, that the umlaute ( in utf-8 form e.g. ä, ü etc.) are being regarded as multi-characters

int main()
int zeichen;
...

zeichen=getc(sourcefile);
...
if(zeichen=="ä")
external_void_with_putc("ä",...)
...

is my diagnosis correct, that gcc is probably trying to turn this into 7-bit ascii and therefore getting confused with the 'ä'? if so, how do i tell gcc to read a file as if it's UTF-8?

i do realise that this isn't a very critical problem, and what i'm trying to do is much more easily achieved using a short sed-program

hold

Unicode is a multi byte character encoding so in C you will need to convert your Unicode file from the format it has been stored in (probably utf7 or utf8) to wide characters and then work with them, before saving the file you will then need to convert it back to an appropriate file format.

Personal experience has taught me to use libraries rather than using C directly, or you could look at a language that supports Unicode directly - there are many.