On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 09:17:55AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
Matt Sergeant writes:
: have a heredoc with chinese writing embeded in your script - what a
: nightmare...) but I don't think you need to worry about that.
I wasn't going that far, though it may be possible in practice. Generally,
if the script is in utf8, all the literals would default to being in utf8
as well.
"The script" can only be in one encoding at once I hope.
use bytes;
markoem <<"END";
(Big5 stuff here.)
END
But here you imply that the script as a whole starts out as valid utf8,
but then when it sees "use bytes" it suddenly accepts any 8-bit value.
That means that if you write a perl script to scan your source code, the
script will complain about lots of malformed utf8 characters.
In other words, just the situation Matt was afraid of.
If "use bytes" *doesn't* do all that, then I don't see what the "(Big5
stuff here.)" would look like in an octal dump.
Or is it the "markoem" that changes the document encoding halfway
through the script?
If you've decided you want the functionality then I think a new quoting
and/or here-document syntax might be a better way to change the meaning
of the bytes that make up the script.
--
The idea is that the first face shown to people is one they can readily
accept - a more traditional logo. The lunacy element is only revealed
subsequently, via the LunaDude. [excerpted from the Lunatech Identity Manual]
