On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 01:44:23PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > If I change the quotes at the top of the *.c files in the perl source code to > use UTF-8 instead of Latin-1, would anyone object? > > I have my text editor set to use UTF-8 by default, so it complains whenever I > open those files.
I have a vague memory (possibly wrong) that there was a VMS editor that choked (in some fashion) on UTF-8. [And if so, I guess because it assumes that source code is ISO-8859-1, and no C1 control characters] Nicholas Clark
