Re: BOM and principle of least surprise
[email protected] (Erland Sommarskog)
| Newsgroups | perl.unicode |
|---|---|
| Organization | Erland Sommarskog |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Jarkko Hietaniemi ([email protected]) writes: >>>>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. >> >> >> Will such an option include the possibility to say that I want Perl to >> determine the encoding from the byte-order mark? > > No. The patch I submitted peeks at the beginning of a Perl script and > if it either sees a BOM or something that looks like raw BOMless UTF-16 > (every other byte zero, every other not) of either endianness, Perl will > understand. I think I understood that the change was only for the script as such. Let's forget input files for the moment. So Perl 5.8.5 will be able to read a UTF-16 file? And if it sees a UTF-8 BOM, that will imply a "use utf8"? Will this require that I specify a an option to Perl, or will this be the default behaviour? -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, [email protected]