How to do direct assignment of string with a special character in C

Question

I find it quite useful that I can do this in C:

char *text;
text = "5 us";

However, when I try to do this

char *text;
text = "5 µs";

I get an extraneous character due to the source code encoding in UTF-8 in Eclipse (using CubeIDE). So the string looks like this in byte form:

0x35 0x20 0xC2 0xB5 0x73 0x00

I need the 0xC2 removed and I don't want to write a function to remove this character. I know I can configure Eclipse to handle my source code in US-ASCII. However, then I cannot save my file anymore because of the given assignment

text = "5 µs";

Eclipse won't save my file unless I remove the µ in my source code.

Is there maybe something like the following?

text = {'5', ' ', 181, 's', '0');

I just don't want to go through the hoops of creating a global string the pedestrian way. I want to preserve the elegance of a direct assignment.

Sorry if I don't use the proper C terms but I think you get the gist.