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On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:04 PM Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org> wrote: > I think this might be reasonable, but I'm not certain about how we > would want it to interact with Pod. > > Pod is often interleaved with code, and more likely to include names, > and thus, UTF-8 characters. The way to declare Pod content as UTF-8 is > separate from how it is declared for the source. Should users be > required to include both a 'use utf8;' and '=encoding UTF-8' if they > want to include UTF-8 characters in their documentation, even if their > code is pure ASCII? > It seems reasonable to me for this restriction to ignore POD, and only apply to things "use utf8" applies to (so including __DATA__/__END__). Though I'm not sure how that interacts internally. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next