Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:08:10 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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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.
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