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Re: RFC: UTF-8 perl (not Perl) source code

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
August 8, 2011 03:25
Subject:
Re: RFC: UTF-8 perl (not Perl) source code
Message ID:
20110808102518.GA23881@plum.flirble.org
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

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