On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:03:07AM +0200, Bra??o Tichý wrote: > </lurk> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Luke Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <perl6-language@perl.org> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:21 AM > Subject: Re: new sigil > > > > > >But I may have to support your code. That's the issue. > > > > Isn't perl6 assuming the source file is in UTF-8 unless explicitly > specified differently?
My point is that there is a difference between the source file being in Unicode and depending on characters outside of ASCII. If someone wants to code using whatever Unicode characters they want, that's fine. Not every computer or editor can do Unicode out of the box. The issue starts when people are required to write code outside of ASCII and that is not available. > > Also it's quite interesting how often was Latin-1 and UTF-8 used in the > discussion interchangeably; > "every source is Latin-1" is marginally better than "every source is > ASCII", but we can do better. > > As for keyboard layouts: I don't think there is Yen sign on US keyboard > either. And that is as much of an issue. > bra??o > > P.S. this e-mail should be sent in UTF-8. And I see your name as "bra??o" :)
