Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:01:23 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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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.
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