>> >>Ummm, why? Giving fewer options to users has never been a strong Perl >>tradition :-) Besides, recognizing the various Unicode encodings is >>pretty trivial, especially if we know something that's likely to be >>present in the first line, like "perl".
Or the "#!" is pretty good marker too. > My mistake. When I saw "script" in the first line, I assumed we were > talking about subsections of Unicode, not "script as in a program". > You're right about doing a guess based on looking for "perl" being > pretty definitive. > > My hope for fewer options is for reading input. That is, I'd like the > default encoding for all inputs and outputs to be UTF8, unless it has We tried this with perl 5.8.0 and the feedback was overwhelmingly negative... if people do "print chr 0xff" they do expect one byte, not two. > been converted and that conversion is somehow flagged. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
