# from Johan Vromans
# on Thursday 11 October 2007 09:41:
>>> doesn't it break programs that already use non-ascii (e.g.,Latin1)?
>>
>> How?
>
>Because it's no different from the utf8 pragma:
>
> $ cat t.pl
> my $x = "ë";
> $ perl -w t.pl
> $ perl -Mutf8 -w t.pl
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x81, with
> no preceding start byte) ...
OK, Then it breaks them. How would it not? There's always 'no'.
--Eric
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