Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> This is true for text files, where a human reader can interpret the data
> correctly even in absence of a declaration. For programming languages,
> this is typically not the case. Instead, in order to correctly interpret
> the source code, you need to declare the encoding. For a script,
[...]

This makes no sense. For a script, the shell does not care about the encoding
at all.

Also, currently, people use zillions of encodings, most of which have no
signature, so introducing a signature for UTF-8 does not win anything.

In the future, most people will probably use only UTF-8, so the signature
carries no information.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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