If you want you can now add -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS to your cflags

and the Perl will be built to do that by default (adding that
will break scripts having non-UTF-8 binary data, such as Latin-1.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11656

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.h b/utf8.h
index b793db612e..c475d0f287 100644
--- a/utf8.h
+++ b/utf8.h
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@
  *
  */
 
+/* Use UTF-8 as the default script encoding?
+ * Turning this on will break scripts having non-UTF8 binary
+ * data (such as Latin-1) in string literals. */
+#ifdef USE_UTF8_SCRIPTS
+#    define USE_UTF8_IN_NAMES (!IN_BYTES)
+#else
+#    define USE_UTF8_IN_NAMES (PL_hints & HINT_UTF8)
+#endif
+
 #ifdef EBCDIC
 /* The equivalent of these macros but implementing UTF-EBCDIC
    are in the following header file: