Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:23 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
[...]
> >> Not sure what this has
> >> to do with the specific patch, though.
> > 
> > It is not supported by the kernel. So either you remove it or you make
> > some compatibility hack (like an appropriate sym-link
> 
> -EDOESNOTWORK
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -T -s -w

It depends on /usr/bin/perl how it handles a white-space character
directly after "-w".

> >, etc.). Since the
> > kernel can start java classes directly, you can probably make a similar
> > thing for the UTF-8 stuff.
> 
> If MSDOS text files are text files are legal scripts, the kernel
> should recognize [\x0D\x0A] as valid line breaks.

The Unix worls does recognize the line breaks. It's up to the tool how
to handle the white-space character before it. Especially for C and
similar languages with continuation lines this leads to interesting (or
now more boring) problems.

	Bernd
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