Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-05-16 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
>>No. The patch I submitted peeks at the beginning of a Perl script and >>if it either sees a BOM or something that looks like raw BOMless UTF-16 >>(every other byte zero, every other not) of either endianness, Perl will >>understand. > > > I think I understood that the change was only for the s

Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-05-16 Thread Erland Sommarskog
Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: To be able to that, it would have have to understand byte-order marks (which it doesn't). I think there was a suggestion that you could specify an >>> >>>In 5.8.5 it will. >> >> >> Will such an option include the possibility to say that I

[Encode] 2.00 released!

2004-05-16 Thread Dan Kogai
Porters, I have just released Encode version 2.00. Though major version has been incremented, there is no big feature (addition|change)s. =head1 AVAILABILITY http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/Encode-2.00.tar.gz or CPAN near you =head1 CHANGES $Revision: 2.0 $ $Date: 2004/05/16 20:55:15 $ * version

Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-05-16 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
>>>To be able to that, it would have have to understand byte-order marks >>>(which it doesn't). I think there was a suggestion that you could >>>specify an >> >>In 5.8.5 it will. > > > Will such an option include the possibility to say that I want Perl to > determine the encoding from the byte-o

Re: BOM and principle of least surprise

2004-05-16 Thread Erland Sommarskog
Jarkko Hietaniemi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: >> Both input data and the script. Just because the script has been saved >> in UTF-8, does not mean that literals in the script are taken as UTF-8. > > Oh, great. Now you want to mix different encodings in the same file. > I give up :-) I think you