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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, December 1, 2008, 12:06
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?

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 >
-- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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