Erland Sommarskog <sommar(_at_)algonet(_dot_)se> writes:
Jarkko Hietaniemi (jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi) writes:
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
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.
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
option on the command-line to specify the encoding of the script file,
but I haven't tried.
I thought the issue was about Perl not automatically guessing the
UTF-16 encoding of input data.
Both input data and the script. Just because the script has been saved
in UTF-8, does not mean that literals in the script are taken as UTF-8.
I disagree there. The literals have to be in same encoding as
the surounding script - anything else is madness.
