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SubjectRe: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
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.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Q: Who invented the first airplane that did not fly? A: The Wrong Brothers.
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