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On 8/7/21 5:53 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: >> Question: Is there ever a real life scenario where a single source file is >> not entirely the same encoding? Can you reasonably have a single file >> containing Perl code and POD where the Perl code is one character encoding >> and the POD is another one? -- Darren Duncan > > Mixed utf8/non-utf8 my be rare, but even fully utf8 source files will > still require 2 separate declarations: > > a 'use utf8' for the perl parser, and a '=encoding utf8' for a pod parser, > which won't see or understand the 'use utf8'. > > More generally, I think croaking on non-ascii in the src file is a fine > use for 'use v5.36'. I'm less clear whether it croak on pod too. Perhaps it > should croak on ord() > 0x7f in a pod section unless an '=encoding' has > been seen? > > > Pod is currently assumed to be CP1252 or UTF-8 unless an =encoding line is specifiedThread Previous | Thread Next