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
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <[email protected]> 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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