Re: RFC: UTF-8 perl (not Perl) source code

On 8/8/2011 5:25 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 01:44:23PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
>> If I change the quotes at the top of the *.c files in the perl source code to use UTF-8 instead of Latin-1, would anyone object?
>>
>> I have my text editor set to use UTF-8 by default, so it complains whenever I open those files.
>
> I have a vague memory (possibly wrong) that there was a VMS editor that
> choked (in some fashion) on UTF-8. [And if so, I guess because it assumes
> that source code is ISO-8859-1, and no C1 control characters]

The VMS DECTerm terminal emulator (X11 based) locks up from the output 
of the unicode tests while running Perl.

VMS basically only supports ASCII and the 8 bit ISO character sets for 
terminal output for the non-internationalized versions.

I have not worked with the internationalized variants to know if they 
have the same issues.

-John
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