A few months ago, minus273 offered an I6 patch which allowed users to write their source files in UTF-8 rather than using @-style character escapes. See this thread: [log] Porting Inform 6 to Chinese
I’ve finally integrated it into my Inform work tree. (It’s not exactly the same patch; I fixed a couple of small bugs.)
Until this is absorbed by the official I6 release, you can download the patch here:
github.com/erkyrath/inform6/com … b7dfddecbe
Compiler unit tests: github.com/erkyrath/glk-dev/tre … /unittests (chinesedicttest.inf and unisourcetest.inf).
This doesn’t directly affect I7 users, because the I7 IDE already handles UTF-8 source code (and does all the necessary escaping automatically).