From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932185AbVHMQfb (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:35:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932186AbVHMQfb (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:35:31 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:42435 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932185AbVHMQfa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:35:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UBgKjwSoCYxPvtg3csPZikuSpiu7Mgzaza66moHlEu0JhbTfuQIZPvk8w005YuSl0dDNOWsMIMM+/8mJuCDy9RDuUghdpVW4qPwrJQPbDuREybdBMh+7sWtrHCUg0TWqplSgJwDkUiZue1FCRCjT8bHom4p5L+WdoooZCcFaqjU= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:35:29 -0700 From: Stephen Pollei To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis?= Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/13/05, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > This patch adds support for UTF-8 signatures (aka BOM, byte order > mark) to binfmt_script. > With such support, creating scripts that reliably carry non-ASCII > characters is simplified. > the approach would naturally extend to Perl to enhance/replace > the "use utf8" pragma. Thats great for the perl6 people. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html says they are going to be using « and » as operators... So I'd imagine that a lot of perl6 scripts would be utf8. -- http://dmoz.org/profiles/pollei.html http://sourceforge.net/users/stephen_pollei/ http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=2455954990164098214 http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/