Re: BOM and principle of least surprise
[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
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Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > 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. Uh, really? Perl 5.8+ should be able to do that, automatically. I thought the issue was about Perl not automatically guessing the UTF-16 encoding of input data. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen