Re^2: begin with perl

encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8

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Re^3: begin with perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 01, 2011 at 23:58 UTC
Unless you load it via `perl -Mencoding=UTF-16le`, Perl can't read the encoding pragma to process it. Furthermore, "encoding" has the nasty side-effect of breaking `\x##` sequences in string literals.	[reply] [d/l] [select]