>>>To be able to that, it would have have to understand byte-order marks >>>(which it doesn't). I think there was a suggestion that you could >>>specify an >> >>In 5.8.5 it will. > > > Will such an option include the possibility to say that I want Perl to > determine the encoding from the byte-order mark?
No. The patch I submitted peeks at the beginning of a Perl script and if it either sees a BOM or something that looks like raw BOMless UTF-16 (every other byte zero, every other not) of either endianness, Perl will understand. Nothing for input files, someone would have to write a PerlIO layer for that. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
