title: Is it bad to have accented characters in c++ source code?
body: <p>I want my program to be as portable as possible. I search a string for accented characters, e.g. è. Could this be a problem? Is there a C++ equivalent of HTML entities?</p>
  
  <p>It would be used in a switch statement, for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>switch(someChar) //someChar is of type char
  {
     case 'é' :
          x = 1;
          break;
     case 'è' :
     ...
  }
  </code></pre>