Re^5: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch?

Except that there are no "Unicode literals".

This has nothing to do with Perl. What we see here are different rules for the acceptable character sets of PerlMonks markup. BTST: Today I was surprised when I noticed that I could write "Rīga" in the text of an article, but not in its title.

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Re^6: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch? by VK (Novice) on Sep 02, 2019 at 12:46 UTC
> I could write "Rīga" in the text of an article, but not in its title The site itself also prepares us to the Perl way of thinking? :-)	[reply]
Re^7: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch? by haj (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2019 at 13:12 UTC
In the sense of: Don't blame Perl for questionable decisions by Perl programmers: Definitely yes!	[reply]
Re^8: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 02, 2019 at 13:36 UTC
It might be unpleasant to you, but he's mostly correct. This site is indeed a pretty good illustration of the problem. It doesn't use utf-8 at all, it uses Windows-1252. It's actually the browser that does html-escaping (both ways). As for why? Presumably because updating Perlmonks to use utf-8 would be too difficult for anyone to bother.	[reply]
Re^9: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch? by haj (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2019 at 15:26 UTC
Re^10: Is there some universal Unicode+UTF8 switch? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 02, 2019 at 16:46 UTC