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Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.
I'd be pissed if it was my editor. A compiler used on a global scale would make sense.
Nah, I would absolutely want my compiler to error out hard on characters that are not allowed per the standard.