Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> I'm not (only) talking about /bin/sh. I'm primarily talking about
> /usr/bin/python, /usr/bin/perl, and /usr/bin/wish. In all these
> languages, the interpreter *does* care about the encoding.

Agreed. On the other hand, in all these languages you can pass the encoding
as a parameter to the interpreter, cannot you?

> In the future, the signature *will* carry no information. But the future
> is, well, in the future.
> 
> I just can't understand why (some) people are so opposed to this patch.

Occam's razor?

				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
"In accord to UNIX philosophy, PERL gives you enough rope to hang yourself." -- Larry Wall
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