Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

Jarkko Hietaniemi ([email protected]) 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.


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