On 8/8/2011 5:25 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
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]
The VMS DECTerm terminal emulator (X11 based) locks up from the output
of the unicode tests while running Perl.
VMS basically only supports ASCII and the 8 bit ISO character sets for
terminal output for the non-internationalized versions.
I have not worked with the internationalized variants to know if they
have the same issues.
-John
malmberg@encompasserve.organization
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