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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
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<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="936"></A><H4>936.
  
Array initialization with new string literals
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<B>Section: </B>9.5.3&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.init.string">dcl.init.string</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD2
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Alisdair Meredith
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 <B>Date: </B>11 July, 2009<BR>


<P>[Voted into WP at October, 2009 meeting.]</P>

<P>9.5.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.init.string#1">dcl.init.string</A>] paragraph 1 says,</P>

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A <TT>char</TT> array (whether plain <TT>char</TT>, <TT>signed
char</TT>, or <TT>unsigned char</TT>), <TT>char16_t</TT> array,
<TT>char32_t</TT> array, or <TT>wchar_t</TT> array can be initialized
by a <I>string-literal</I> (optionally enclosed in braces) with no
prefix, with a <TT>u</TT> prefix, with a <TT>U</TT> prefix, or with an
<TT>L</TT> prefix, respectively...

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<P>This formulation does not allow for raw and UTF-8 literals.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (July, 2009):</B></P>

<P>Change 9.5.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/dcl.init.string#1">dcl.init.string</A>] paragraph 1 as follows:</P>

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A char array (whether plain <TT>char</TT>, <TT>signed char</TT>, or
<TT>unsigned char</TT>), <TT>char16_t</TT> array, <TT>char32_t</TT>
array, or <TT>wchar_t</TT> array can be initialized by a
<DEL><I>string-literal</I> (optionally enclosed in braces) with no
prefix, with a <TT>u</TT> prefix, with a <TT>U</TT> prefix, or with an
<TT>L</TT> prefix</DEL> <INS>narrow character literal,
<TT>char16_t</TT> string literal, <TT>char32_t</TT> string literal, or
wide string literal</INS>, respectively<DEL>; successive</DEL><INS>,
or by an appropriately-typed string literal enclosed in
braces. Successive</INS> characters of the
<DEL><I>string-literal</I></DEL> <INS>value of the string
literal</INS> initialize the <DEL>members</DEL> <INS>elements</INS>
of the array. [<I>Example:</I> ...

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