<p>
Constant expressions may contain only <a href="#Constants">constant</a>
operands and are evaluated at compile time.
</p>

<p>
Untyped boolean, numeric, and string constants may be used as operands
wherever it is legal to use an operand of boolean, numeric, or string type,
respectively.
</p>

<p>
A constant <a href="#Comparison_operators">comparison</a> always yields

	// flag bit is set. However, there are several problems:
	//
	//	* Many ZIP readers still do not support UTF-8.
	//	* If the UTF-8 flag is cleared, several readers simply interpret the
	//	name and comment fields as whatever the local system encoding is.
	//
	// In order to avoid breaking readers without UTF-8 support,
	// we avoid setting the UTF-8 flag if the strings are CP-437 compatible.

<p>
Constant expressions may contain only <a href="#Constants">constant</a>
operands and are evaluated at compile time.
</p>

<p>
Untyped boolean, numeric, and string constants may be used as operands
wherever it is legal to use an operand of boolean, numeric, or string type,
respectively.
</p>

<p>
A constant <a href="#Comparison_operators">comparison</a> always yields