Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:28:28 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts |
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Hello!
> I'm not (only) talking about /bin/sh. I'm primarily talking about > /usr/bin/python, /usr/bin/perl, and /usr/bin/wish. In all these > languages, the interpreter *does* care about the encoding.
Agreed. On the other hand, in all these languages you can pass the encoding as a parameter to the interpreter, cannot you?
> In the future, the signature *will* carry no information. But the future > is, well, in the future. > > I just can't understand why (some) people are so opposed to this patch.
Occam's razor?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "In accord to UNIX philosophy, PERL gives you enough rope to hang yourself." -- Larry Wall - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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