since when is it acceptable to have UTF-8 format files as shell scripts, perl 
scripts or even python programs?

a directive in .vimrc can probably help. along the lines of 

au BefRead,ButNewFile *.sh,*.pl,*.py set nobomb

or if you invoke your shell script with `bash --utf8 
./my_broken^H^H^H^Hutf-encoded.script` or just `LANG=C.UTF-8 ./my_utf8-script` 
or set LC_ALL etc.

you know how people pose the question "if you could go back in time, would you 
kill Hitler? Same needs to be asked about the person/committee that came up 
with UTF8.

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