Perl 5 should also be defaulting to Windows-1252 … little things that make Perl 5 seem old and crufty … Perl 5 violates the principle of least astonishment.
So, a highly limited Latin only encoding seems modern/uncrufty to you in 2012? There are many encodings and it’s pretty easy with newer perls to use whatever you like or to default to the entirely reasonable utf-8. And not to put too fine a point on it—as the kids used to say and with full knowledge that two of the very best hackers on PM are WinCats—but I’ve never ceased to be astonished that anyone used Windows ever.
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