> >>Using a thing like utf8 to determine the encoding of character literals >>is not a good idea. Suddenly someone saves the file in a different >>encoding, and guess what happens. And as long as Perl does not act >>on byte-order marks, how would it be able to read a script that has >>been saved in UTF16-LE, which is the normal way of saving Unicode data >>on Windows? > > > I haven't tried this myself...
I just now tried and it seems that it's not as trivial as I thought... We do have a test for UTF-16 detection in scripts, but the test seems to be rather limited -- my simple first test of writing out a script in UTF-16LE and then trying to run it with Perl didn't work :-( > >>I thought the issue was about Perl not automatically guessing the >>UTF-16 encoding of input data. > > > That is a related but separate issue. >
