Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> 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

In 5.8.5 it will.

> 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.

Oh, great.  Now you want to mix different encodings in the same file.
I give up :-)

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