Erland Sommarskog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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.
I disagree there. The literals have to be in same encoding as the surounding script - anything else is madness.
