On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:56 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: > 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?
Not me. I believe Tom C. is responsible for putting them in their current form so he might have an opinion. >>> 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] I don't remember anything about an editor in this regard. > The VMS DECTerm terminal emulator (X11 based) locks up from the output of the > unicode tests while running Perl. You mean running the test suite, right? A problem with sending a (possibly intentionally illegal) sequence to the terminal as part of a test shouldn't preclude putting valid UTF-8 in the source code. As far as what git does, I think it simply averts its eyes from all questions of encoding and stores bytes. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
