Date: 2009-10-15.00:00:00

[Voted into WP at October, 2009 meeting.]

Date: 2009-07-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (July, 2009):

Change 9.5.3 [dcl.init.string] paragraph 1 as follows:

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

Date: 2009-07-11.00:00:00

9.5.3 [dcl.init.string] paragraph 1 says,

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

This formulation does not allow for raw and UTF-8 literals.