Jarkko Hietaniemi (jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi) writes:
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.
I think I understood that the change was only for the script as such. Let's
forget input files for the moment.
So Perl 5.8.5 will be able to read a UTF-16 file?
And if it sees a UTF-8 BOM, that will imply a "use utf8"?
Will this require that I specify a an option to Perl, or will this be
the default behaviour?
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