Bug#692399: cpp-4.4: cpp does not handle all characters

[jmg <jeanmichel.123@free.fr>]

Package: cpp-4.4
Version: 4.4.5-8
Severity: normal


It looks like cpp does not handle by default symbols which contain diactrics such as in the following example.
Nonetheless, from my undesrstanding, Linux is assumed to be UTF-8 by default.

#define six 6
char * saint = {six,six,six};

#define π 3.14159
float area = π * r * r;

#define Piqué 7
char * weaving = {Piqué,Piqué,Piqué};

#define rosé 8
char * wine = {rosé,rosé,rosé};

#define Nestlé 9
char * chocolate = {Nestlé,Nestlé,Nestlé};

#define Citroën 0
char * car = {Citroën, Citroën, Citroën};



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cpp-4.4 depends on:
ii  gcc-4.4-base              4.4.5-8        The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
ii  libc6                     2.11.3-4       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgmp3c2                 2:4.3.2+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libmpfr4                  3.0.0-2        multiple precision floating-point 

cpp-4.4 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cpp-4.4 suggests:
pn  gcc-4.4-locales               <none>     (no description available)

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