Re: BOM and principle of least surprise
[email protected] (Nick Ing-Simmons)
| Newsgroups | perl.unicode |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Larry Wall <[email protected]> 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.