Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:34:17 +0200 | From | "Martin v. Löwis" <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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Martin Mares wrote: > I doubt that. For ages people were using several different encodings on > a single system (at least here in .cz) without any markers and although > there were some rough edges, almost everything worked. Now we do the same > with ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8, again with no need for a marker.
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 should be done inside the file itself, as there is no explicit invocation of a compiler or some such where the script encoding could be specified externally.
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