Perl 5 should also be defaulting to Windows-1252 instead of to ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).

I really hope this will NEVER happen, not even on a Windows platform. cp1252 is only "default" on Windows, it is not the default on any other platform and changing perl5's default to cp1252 would break every script that assumes the current default (wise or not).

Most perl scripts are cross-platform portable, at least they can be when the programmer follows the basic porting rules. Most of my scripts and modules are cross platform, and I do test my modules on HP-UX, Linux, AIX and Windows (and sometimes even on OSX when I can access such architecture).

That said, the default IMHO is likely to change for Windows. If not in Windows 8 (or whatever they will call it) then maybe Windows 9 or 10 will have Unicode as default character set. Problem solved. I already use UTF-8 as default encoding on all my browsers (Opera, Firefox, Konqueror, Opera Mobile) and IRC.

My advise to you would be to switch to using utf-8 (and declare 'use utf8;' next to use strict; and use warnings; in the head of your scripts when you do.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^3: Windows-1252 characters from \x{0080} thru \x{009f} (source-code encoding) by Tux
in thread Windows-1252 characters from \x{0080} thru \x{009f} by Jim

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