* Jonathan Pool <pool(_at_)utilika(_dot_)org> [2010-11-30 23:50]:
As documented in
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80030 there
seems to be a problem when "use encoding 'utf8'" is removed and
replaced with "use utf8", so the problem is not limited to the
"encoding" pragma. ˉ
However, you can expect the `utf8` pragma to be fixed – though
that won’t help you right now. The `encoding` pragma OTOH is
irretrievably broken.
(There is also consensus that source files in arbitrary encodings
are not a sane idea anyway; if you need more than ASCII, your
code should be in UTF-8 and you should `use utf8`. So no there is
no replacement for that aspect of the `encoding` pragma coming
down the pipe either, now or ever.)
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
