Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Larry Wall <larry(_at_)wall(_dot_)org> writes:
Right now, the meaning of "text" is subject to severe distortions
due to legacy issues. But in the long run, "text" is going to mean
Unicode, and that probably means a UTF-8 file encoding at least in
the western world,
Microsoft seem to be somewhat focused on some 16-bit form.
This thread started as complaint that perl5 can't read a
script saved as UCS-2/UTF-16 or whatever Windows uses.
Uh, really? Perl 5.8+ should be able to do that, automatically.
I thought the issue was about Perl not automatically guessing the
UTF-16 encoding of input data.
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