Erland Sommarskog wrote: > 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
In 5.8.5 it will. > 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. Oh, great. Now you want to mix different encodings in the same file. I give up :-) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
