Can a makefile contain UTF8 urators?

Question

I am currently trying to figure out if something can be done for dmake, resulting in this error message in the makefile with a simple file name containing utf8 characters:

Name contains non-printable character [0xffffffe0] 

In my research, I could not find any mention of whether GNU make or dmake can handle makefiles with UTF8 characters in them.

So my question is: Can a makefile contain UTF8 characters, and if this answer is known, where is it documented?

Answer 1

To answer yourself:

• GNU make can work with UTF-8 just fine.
• dmake, being basically refused to reimplement make , can only deal with ASCII .

Answer 2

Creating in windows does not work with UTF-8. You will get a “missing delimiter” even with an empty file. Use notepad.exe to convert the makefile to ANSI. NOTE. There is a small drop-down box next to the save button.