Commit: GAS: Add option to warn about multibyte characters

[Paul Koning]

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 2:34 PM, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
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> Am 18.11.2021 um 17:47 schrieb Nick Clifton via Binutils:
>> Hi Guys,
>> 
>>   I am applying the patch below to add a new option to the assembler.
>>   The option enables the generation of warning messages when multibyte
>>   characters are found in the input.  It has two modes, in the first it
>>   will warn about multibyte characters detected anywhere in the input
>>   stream.
> Why should one ever check against international characters in comments or strings?
> This is asking for trouble with people who legitimately use them when working with some automatisation scripts that obstruct them. I think this version of the option is more than dispensable.
> Thomas

Perhaps there should instead be a way to specify what encoding should be used.  UTF-8?  UTF-16?  KOI-8?

	paul