To be able to that, it would have have to understand byte-order marks
(which it doesn't). I think there was a suggestion that you could
specify an
In 5.8.5 it will.
Will such an option include the possibility to say that I want Perl to
determine the encoding from the byte-order mark?
No. The patch I submitted peeks at the beginning of a Perl script and
if it either sees a BOM or something that looks like raw BOMless UTF-16
(every other byte zero, every other not) of either endianness, Perl will
understand.
Nothing for input files, someone would have to write a PerlIO layer for
that.
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special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
