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Re: CHAT: TECH: utf-8 in Perl comments

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 11:53
Mark J. Reed skrev:
> 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?
I thought it could cause problems.
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote: >> Can one use utf-8 characters in the >> comments in a Perl script without invoking >> use utf8? I can and do use \x{1234} in the >> code, but can't very well use it in the >> comments and still read what I've written! >> >> /BP >> > > >

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