Re: CHAT: TECH: utf-8 in Perl comments
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 20:51 |
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:53, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed skrev:
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>> UTF-8 is safe in comments and POD unless you do something silly like
>> encode the comment-ending newline in multibyte form. But why don't you
>> want to use the utf8 pragma?
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> I thought it could cause problems.
I think your information is influenced by old news; the behaviour
changed (IIRC) between 5.6 and 5.8.
The modern meaning should cause fewer problems than the old meaning.
(Incidentally, modern Perls can also handle UTF-8 source code without
"use utf8;" if the file starts with a UTF-8 BOM. Though some people
don't like UTF-8 BOMs for philosophical reasons.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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