Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> In programming languages that support the notion of source encodings,
> you do have markers for 8-bit encodings. For example, in Python, you
> can specify
>
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
>
> to denote the source encoding. In Perl, you write
>
> use encoding "latin-1";
>
> (with 'use utf8;' being a special-case shortcut).
>
> In Java, you can specify the encoding through the -encoding argument
> to javac. In gcc, you use -finput-charset (with the special case of
> -fexec-charset and -fwide-exec-charset potentially being different).
>
> So you *must* use encoding declarations in some languages; the UTF-8
> signature is a particularly convenient way of doing so, since it allows
> for uniformity across languages, with no need for the text editors to
> parse all the different programming languages.

Did you miss the point?  There has been a standard for marking for *30 
years*, and virtually NOONE (outside Japan) uses it.

	-hpa
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