mark -s switches as UTF-8 with -CA #23834
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- move "bug id" comment where it was originally placed: before the "#!perl -s" test - add GH ticket number and short description - remove 2-arg open
-CA (also known as PERL_UNICODE=A) tells perl to assume the command-line arguments to be UTF-8. This did not apply to the global variables implicitly created by -s, however, only to the elements of @ARGV. Logically speaking it does not make sense to have half a command line treated as UTF-8, so this patch makes -CA apply to everything. Fixes Perl#23377.
tonycoz
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I think if we are to try to improve -C, it should first be by making a new second switch (or additional flag to -C) that properly uses |
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-CA(also known asPERL_UNICODE=A) tells perl to assume the command-line arguments to be UTF-8. This did not apply to the global variables implicitly created by-s, however, only to the elements of@ARGV. Logically speaking it does not make sense to have half a command line treated as UTF-8, so this patch makes-CAapply to everything.Fixes #23377.