#pragma warning(disable:4244) /* No possible loss of data warnings */
#pragma warning(disable:4305) /* No truncation from int to char warnings */
+
+#pragma warning(error:4819) /* The file contains a character that cannot be represented in the current code page */
+
+/* work around Microsoft's premature attempt to deprecate the C-Library */
+#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
+#define _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_WARNINGS