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SubjectRe: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
> We can do that now, or in five or ten years. I'm willing to wait that
> long, but I'm certain that more people will find the UTF-8 signature
> useful over time. It's the only sane way to get non-ASCII into script
> source in a consistent way.
>

No. The sane way is to just use UTF-8.

In five or ten years, by the time you've gotten your idiotic BOM mess to
sort-of work, it will be completely pointless to have anything *but*
UTF-8, and thus it's pointless.

Don't perpetuate the braindamage.

-hpa
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