Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> use utf8;
>> if ( $] >= 5.007 ) {
>> binmode (STDOUT, ":utf8");
>> }
>>
>>
>> It would be nice if "use utf8" set IO modes for utf8 automagically.
>> Perhaps a pragma could be passed such as: use utf8 ':all' (or something),
>> that set everything to utf8 that is settable.
>
>And fixing that in Perl 5.8.1 would help Perl 5.8.0 how? :-)
>
>But more seriously, the "use utf8" is "an evolutionary dead end".
>The only thing it means these days is "my script is in UTF-8".
And even that is a potential dead-end - scripts in other encodings
don't have a unique pragma so why does UTF-8 ?
>For "all the other" things, I think there can't ever be a consensus
>for "all those things", since there are so many of such things.
>Better be very explicit about the things you want to "UTF-8-ize".
>
>> cheers,
>>
>> /Daniel
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