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52 | =over 4 |
52 | =over 4 |
53 | |
53 | |
54 | =item use utf8 |
54 | =item use utf8 |
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56 | While it's not common sense to write your programs in UTF-8, it's quickly |
56 | While it's not common sense to write your programs in UTF-8, it's quickly |
57 | becoming the most common encoding, and the most convenient encoding |
57 | becoming the most common encoding, is the designated future default |
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58 | encoding for perl sources, and the most convenient encoding available |
58 | available (you can do really nice quoting tricks...). Experience has shown |
59 | (you can do really nice quoting tricks...). Experience has shown that our |
59 | that our programs were either all pure ascii or utf-8, both of which will |
60 | programs were either all pure ascii or utf-8, both of which will stay the |
60 | stay the same. |
61 | same. |
61 | |
62 | |
62 | There are few drawbacks to enabling UTF-8 source code by default (mainly |
63 | There are few drawbacks to enabling UTF-8 source code by default (mainly |
63 | some speed hits due to bugs in older versions of perl), so this module |
64 | some speed hits due to bugs in older versions of perl), so this module |
64 | enables UTF-8 source code encoding by default. |
65 | enables UTF-8 source code encoding by default. |
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