Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> This thread started as complaint that perl5 can't read a >> script saved as UCS-2/UTF-16 or whatever Windows uses. > > Uh, really? Perl 5.8+ should be able to do that, automatically.
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 option on the command-line to specify the encoding of the script file, but I haven't tried. > I thought the issue was about Perl not automatically guessing the > UTF-16 encoding of input data. Both input data and the script. Just because the script has been saved in UTF-8, does not mean that literals in the script are taken as UTF-8. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
