On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:27:16AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: > --- 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.
Actually, Unicode will be the default. 8859-1 can probably also be handled without declaration. > 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. Mmm, I view one-character Unicode operators as more of an escape hatch for the future, not as something to be made mandatory. But then, I'm one of those ugly Americans. Of course, I also think I'm allowed to be a little inconsistent in forcing things like »op« on people. After all, there's gotta be some advantage to being the Fearless Leader... Larry
