# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #115712] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=115712 >
<mtymula> here you have a guestion... why my *.pl file with utf-8 coding does not fire when i make perl6 *.pl <mtymula> let's say it is test.pl <mtymula> test.pl has utf-8 coding <jnthn> mtymula: Perhaps because a handful of Windows programs seem to think utf-8 needs a byte order mark at the start of the file. :/ <mtymula> i get ===SORRY!=== Confused at line 1, near "\ufeffuse v6;\r\n" <jnthn> hah, yes. <jnthn> \ufeff <mtymula> what shall i do?? <jnthn> Get rid of the \ufeff at the start of the file. <mtymula> come on... there is no such thing <moritz> yes there is <moritz> your editor just doesn't show you <jnthn> It's in the output you pasted...and what moritz said. <moritz> use a hex editor to confirm, if you want <moritz> and a better text editor <mtymula> well i use notepad ++ <jnthn> On the encoding menu select "UTF-8 without BOM" * jnthn thought that was the default... <mtymula> <hahaha> <mtymula> ok <masak> utf-8 files with a BOM has to be one of the stupidest things ever. <FROGGS> masak: can you determine the endianess without the bom? <masak> FROGGS: yes. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8 <masak> I wonder why we shouldn't simply strip the BOM in Rakudo if we find it. <masak> would make for fewer surprised first-time users. <masak> we could even put it in the grammar, and just ignore it. <FROGGS> I'd say that skipping is better than actually modifying some code <masak> that's what I'm suggesting. <masak> sorry, I have an FP background; "strip" doesn't mean "modify original" to me :P <jnthn> Yes, we could diddle the grammar. <masak> *or* we could flag it up with a dedicated error message, if we were so inclined. <masak> just not "Confused" :( <FROGGS> "===SORRY!=== Please remove that stupid BOM at line 1 at ..." ? * masak submits rakudobug <jnthn> masak: Confused is how I feel about utf-8 having a BOM :P <masak> :P <jnthn> I suggest we make things just work. <masak> me too. <mtymula> ;) <FROGGS> DWIM++ <jnthn> Should be a one-line patch, but I'm currently writing slides for a talk this evening :P
