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Yuki Kimoto
Date:
August 17, 2021 04:20
Subject:
Re: "use v5.36.0" should imply ASCII source
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2021-8-7 0:23 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:

>
> I'm not *sure* this is an improvement, but I think it is.  This prevents
> the "I forgot to add utf8 and so only discovered after runtime that I have
> doubly-encoded my output" bug.
>
>
Is it okay that our consensus is to write Perl source code using UTF-8 in
the future?

This first step prevent unpredictable latin-1 bugs

- "use feature 'source_encoding';" must be only ASCII (ASCII is a small set
of UTF-8).
- "use feature 'source_encoding'; use utf8;" must be UTF-8.
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