Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-03-31 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:52:10PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: : >Is there at all any possibility to feed Perl a script that has been : >saved in UTF-16? (Which is how you normally save Unicode on Windows.) : : Perl5's assumption is that Unicode is saved as UTF-8. : For Perl6 ask elsewhere ...

Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-03-31 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Erland Sommarskog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >It seems that the only way out, is to first open the file in plain mode, binmode I suspect. >look at the first three bytes, and if it is BOM, close the file, open >again with the appropriate options and discard the BOM. You don't have to close it

Re: How to use Unicode::Collate in multilinguage apps?

2004-03-31 Thread Rich
Sadahiro Tomoyuki wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:44:00 +0100 > Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Using the multi-lingual server scenario I was initially discussing, would >> one of the following usages be correct (yes, it's just pseudocode and >> exists in a world where no errors ever occur!)