Can a makefile contain UTF8 chracters?

Question

I'm currently trying to figure out if anything can be done about dmake resulting in this error message on a makefile with a simple filename containing utf8 characters:

Name contains non-printable character [0xffffffe0]

In my research i've been unable to find any mention of whether GNU make or dmake are even supposed to be able to handle makefiles with UTF8 characters in them.

Thus my question is: Can a makefile can contain UTF8 characters and if that answer is known, where is that documented?

Answer 1

To answer myself:

• GNU make can deal with UTF-8 just fine.
• dmake, being a mostly abandoned reimplementation of make, can only deal with ASCII.

Answer 2

Make on windows does not work with UTF-8. You will get the "missing separator" even with a blank file. Use notepad.exe to convert the makefile to ANSI. NOTE: there is a little dropdown list box next to the save button.