TI Compiler 7.4.2 doesn't like source files encoded in UTF-8 with BOM

The TI compiler doesn't officially support anything but plain ASCII.  It can accept some non-ASCII encodings in some cases, but mainly in comments.

Hi

It is a real problem for us that the TI toolset does not consistently handle UTF-8 encoded files.   We share files with Japanese engineers who use the Kanji font.  UTF-8 is an appropriate, modern way to share such files.

Please raise an improvement request to either:

1) Support UTF-8 with BOM (byte order marker) encoded files in the TI compiler (v7.4)

or

2) Support UTF-8 (without BOM) encoded files correctly in the CCS5 editor.

Best regards

David

Thank you.