gcc 에서 UTF-8 with BOM 로 된 소스파일 컴파일 하기

It appears that there's no way to set default file encoding for new files created in Visual Studio 2005 through "Options" and it will save your files in UTF only if it encounters characters it can't save in your systems default non-unicode locale.

What does it mean? It means that if you develop a simple web site in a language of your system (Lithuanian in my case) and you hardcode some local text in your .aspx it will save in non-unicode encoding (Windows-1257 in my case) and when you move it to the server (or other computer) with other default non-unicode encoding all your localized text will be ruined.

What can be done about it? It looks like we have 3 options:

1. manually save or re-save your files using "Save with Encoding";
2. change your system language to "English" in control panel (this is kind of wrong);
3. re-save Visual Studio templates (in Common 7\IDE\ItemTemplates) in UTF-8 with signature

Only the last option somewhat solves the problem but you'll have to go through all of the templates you ever plan to use and hope that this doesn't break anything.

Hopefully this issue will be addressed in VS2008. I had no time to play with the betas yet, so I have no idea if there are any changes in this area. Can anybody confirm this?

-fexec-charset=charset
Set the execution character set, used for string and character constants. The default is UTF-8. charset can be any encoding supported by the system’s
"iconv" library routine.

-fwide-exec-charset=charset
Set the wide execution character set, used for wide string and character constants. The default is UTF-32 or UTF-16, whichever corresponds to the
width of "wchar_t". As with -fexec-charset, charset can be any encoding supported by the system’s "iconv" library routine; however, you will have
problems with encodings that do not fit exactly in "wchar_t".

-finput-charset=charset
Set the input character set, used for translation from the character set of the input file to the source character set used by GCC. If the locale does
not specify, or GCC cannot get this information from the locale, the default is UTF-8. This can be overridden by either the locale or this command
line option. Currently the command line option takes precedence if there’s a conflict. charset can be any encoding supported by the system’s "iconv"
library routine.

-fshort-wchar
Override the underlying type for wchar_t to be short unsigned int instead of the default for the target. This option is useful for building programs
to run under WINE.

Warning: the -fshort-wchar switch causes GCC to generate code that is not binary compatible with code generated without that switch. Use it to conform
to a non-default application binary interface.