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Greetings, matthew patton!

> since when is it acceptable to have UTF-8 format files as shell scripts,
> perl scripts or even python programs?

Since… forever?

UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII on that level.

The problem when you see `#!/xxx: No such file or directory` error is (either)
a so-called "byte order mark" (which is not quite the same as UTF-16 BOM), or a
CRLF line ending.

> a directive in .vimrc can probably help. along the lines of 

> au BefRead,ButNewFile *.sh,*.pl,*.py set nobomb

> or if you invoke your shell script with `bash --utf8
> ./my_broken^H^H^H^Hutf-encoded.script` or just `LANG=C.UTF-8 ./my_utf8-script` or set LC_ALL etc.

> you know how people pose the question "if you could go back in time, would
> you kill Hitler? Same needs to be asked about the person/committee that came up with UTF8.

I suggest the https://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html for an answer.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, January 1, 2026 20:08:58

Sorry for my terrible english...

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