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

On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:56 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> 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?

Not me.  I believe Tom C. is responsible for putting them in their current form so he might have an opinion.

>>> 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]

I don't remember anything about an editor in this regard.

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

You mean running the test suite, right?  A problem with sending a (possibly intentionally illegal) sequence to the terminal as part of a test shouldn't preclude putting valid UTF-8 in the source code.

As far as what git does, I think it simply averts its eyes from all questions of encoding and stores bytes.

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