--- Matthew Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:41:44AM -0000, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Matthew Zimmerman wrote in perl.perl6.language : > > > > > > So let me make my original question a little more > > > general: are Perl 6 source files encoded in Latin-1, > > > UTF-8, or will Perl 6 provide some sort of translation > > > mechanism, like specifying the charset on the command > > > line? > > > > I expect probably something similar to Perl 5's encoding > > pragma. (But hopefully lexically scoped.) > > Okay, but what will the default be? UTF-8? iso-8859-1? My > current locale? Am I going to have put > > use encoding 'utf8'; # or whatever the P6 syntax will be > > at the beginning of every program that might get distributed > outside of my home country to make sure it'll run?
8859-1 will be the default. If you want "trigraph" support, you'll have to put use encoding 'ugly-american'; at the top of your files. ;-) ;-) ;-) Otherwise, it'll be one-character «fancyops» all the way. =Austin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
