On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:58:52PM +0100, Karl Brodowsky wrote: : Btw. since it is favored that the default encoding for perl6 : source code will be utf-8, it is not enough that you type something : that displays as « or ». Your editor has to support utf-8 or : you need to have conversion tools to and from something that your : editor supports.
It's possible that Perl will be able to intuit your script's encoding in many cases if it decides your script is obviously illegal as Unicode. However, it's best to declare an explicit encoding declaration if you're not going to use something easily recognizable as utf-* or scsu. Larry
