Any bytes on a line after a line-comment sequence (// or #) are ignored up until the ASCII newline character (\n). They may thus be written in any character encoding which is convenient.
Any content after a block comment open sequence in ASCII (/*) up to the closing block comment (*/) is ignored, and thus may also be written in whatever character set is convenient.
1.2 Comment Characters
Any bytes on a line after a line-comment sequence (
//or#) are ignored up until the ASCII newline character (\n). They may thus be written in any character encoding which is convenient.Any content after a block comment open sequence in ASCII (
/*) up to the closing block comment (*/) is ignored, and thus may also be written in whatever character set is convenient.