Fix Unicode

source/archive/convert_pod2html.pl

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 use File::Slurp;
 use Pod::HtmlEasy;
 use File::Find::Rule;
+use Encode 'encode_utf8';
 
 #####################
 #
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@
     $html .= $podhtml->pod2html( $file, %pod_opts );
 
     # Remove =encoding statement
-    $html =~ s/<pre>=encoding utf-?8<\/pre>//;
+    my $utf = $html =~ s/<pre>=encoding utf-?8<\/pre>//;
 
-    write_file( $html_file, $html );
+    write_file( $html_file, $utf ? $html : encode_utf8 $html );
 }

source/archive/faq.html

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 specified using distinctive syntactic forms.</p>
 <a name='Will people be able to develop in Perl 6 and release stand-alone executables, so as to protect their original code?'></a><h2>Will people be able to develop in Perl 6 and release stand-alone
 executables, so as to protect their original code?</h2>
-<p>Since Perl 6 is a language specification, the details will depend on the
+<p>Since Perl 6 is a language specification, the details will depend on the
 specific compilers.</p>
 <p>Rakudo, a Perl 6 compiler based on Parrot, allows compilation to bytecode, and
 a small wrapper exists that can pack up a bytecode file and parrot into a

source/archive/list-summaries/2002/p6summary.2002-06-23.html

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 where he announced his proof of concept for loadable java
 bytecodes. Dan encouraged him to keep up the good work.</p>
 <a name='matrix design'></a><h2>matrix design</h2>
-<p>Josef Höök posted a <a href='http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg10599.html' target='_blank'>archive.develooper.com</a>
+<p>Josef Höök posted a <a href='http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg10599.html' target='_blank'>archive.develooper.com</a>
 which opened something of a can of worms. People <a href='http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg10606.html' target='_blank'>archive.develooper.com</a>
 for first class matrices (though Dan disagreed with them, pointing at
 the PDL project.)</p>

source/archive/list-summaries/2002/p6summary.2002-07-07.html

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 having fun with the Perl 6 grammar.</p>
 <p>Let's see what they got up to this week...</p>
 <a name='PerlArray strange behaviour'></a><h2>PerlArray strange behaviour</h2>
-<p>At the end of last week, Josef Höök (the man whose name I have to cut
+<p>At the end of last week, Josef Höök (the man whose name I have to cut
 and paste...) found some peculiarities when using negative indices
 with PerlArray objects in Parrot. Jeff (DrForr) explained that the
 problem arose from Josef using partially deprecated

source/archive/list-summaries/2002/p6summary.2002-11-24.html

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
 <p>The misnamed coroutines thread continued, discussing the use of
 coroutines as iterators in while and for loops, which then morphed
 into a discussion of <code>&lt;&lt;</code>. You see, <code>&lt;&lt;...&gt;&gt;</code> is the ASCII
-synonym for <code>«...»</code>, which is, in turn a (the?) new
+synonym for <code>«...»</code>, which is, in turn a (the?) new
 way of saying <code>qw/.../</code> (and for vectorizing an op). Ken Fox worried
 that using <code>&lt;&lt;</code> in this way would mean you couldn't use it for
 introducing a HERE doc, but Damian assured him that it wasn't a

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-01-25.html

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 <a name='Meanwhile in perl6-language'></a><h1>Meanwhile in perl6-language</h1>
 <a name='Semantics of Vector operations'></a><h2>Semantics of Vector operations</h2>
 <p>Determined to test everyone's Unicode readiness, Luke Palmer kicked
-off a discussion of the semantics of <code>[1,2,3] »+«
+off a discussion of the semantics of <code>[1,2,3] »+«
 [4,5,6]</code>. At first glance it looks like the result should be
 <code>[5,7,9]</code>, but Luke argued that actually, the code was trying to add
 two lists, each containing a single scalar, that just happened to be
@@ -183,15 +183,15 @@
 surprise'&quot;, before going on to surprise us all with 'lopsided' vector
 ops, which would allow the programmer to specify when a value was
 expected to be treated as a scalar:</p>
-<pre>    $a   »+« $b     # Treat $a and $b as lists
-    $x    +« $y     # Treat $x as a scalar and $b as a list
-          -« @bar   # Return a list of every element of @bar, negated
-    @foo »+  @bar   # Add the length of @bar to every element of @foo</pre>
-<p>Then he scared me with <code>@foo »+= @foo</code>. He noted that it might take
-some getting used to, but that it helped if you pronounce <code>»</code> and
-<code>«</code> as 'each'. Austin Hastings didn't like it (from a syntax
+<pre>    $a   »+« $b     # Treat $a and $b as lists
+    $x    +« $y     # Treat $x as a scalar and $b as a list
+          -« @bar   # Return a list of every element of @bar, negated
+    @foo »+  @bar   # Add the length of @bar to every element of @foo</pre>
+<p>Then he scared me with <code>@foo »+= @foo</code>. He noted that it might take
+some getting used to, but that it helped if you pronounce <code>»</code> and
+<code>«</code> as 'each'. Austin Hastings didn't like it (from a syntax
 highlighting point of view), but he appeared to be outvoted. Larry
-pointed out that <code>«»</code> etc were the least of a syntax highlighters
+pointed out that <code>«»</code> etc were the least of a syntax highlighters
 worries given that any <code>use</code>, <code>eval</code> or operator
 declaration had the potential to morph any subsequent syntax. Piers
 Cawley thought that truly accurate syntax highlighting would have
@@ -203,14 +203,14 @@
 apparent that people seem to like this particular weirding of the
 language, and it certainly allows the programmer to disambiguate
 things rather neatly. Luke even pointed out that this new approach
-allows for calling a method on a list of values: <code>@list ».method</code>,
-and to call a list of methods on a value: <code>$value.« @methods</code>.</p>
-<p>Then the fun began. The issue is that <code>»</code> and <code>«</code> can also be
+allows for calling a method on a list of values: <code>@list ».method</code>,
+and to call a list of methods on a value: <code>$value.« @methods</code>.</p>
+<p>Then the fun began. The issue is that <code>»</code> and <code>«</code> can also be
 written <code>&lt;&lt;</code> and <code>&gt;&gt;</code> (but your POD processor hates you
 for it). This leads to ambiguities like
 <code>&gt;&gt;+&lt;&lt;=&lt;&lt;</code> (which are even harder to type in
-a Pod escape) which can be parsed as <code>»+&lt;&lt;=«</code> or
-<code>»+«=«</code>. Larry wondered if the problem arose because of trying to
+a Pod escape) which can be parsed as <code>»+&lt;&lt;=«</code> or
+<code>»+«=«</code>. Larry wondered if the problem arose because of trying to
 make the <code>&lt;<code>lt</code></code> and <code>&gt;&gt;</code> alternatives look too similar
 to the Unicode glyphs.</p>
 <p>You know, looking at that last paragraph I can see why people think

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-02-01.html

@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@
 turned into a discussion of the meaning of 'vector' which has
 different meanings depending on whether you're a mathematician or
 Seymour Cray.</p>
-<p>Another sub-thread discussed the possible ASCII alternatives for <code>«</code>
-and <code>»</code>. I'm afraid I'm going to bottle out of attempting to
+<p>Another sub-thread discussed the possible ASCII alternatives for <code>«</code>
+and <code>»</code>. I'm afraid I'm going to bottle out of attempting to
 summarize the various alternatives suggested, if only because I used
 up all my POD escape-fu last week. It looks like the <code>&lt;&lt;</code> and
 <code>&gt;&gt;</code> alternatives might be about to bite the dust in favour

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-02-08.html

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4024E112.5030809@toetsch.at' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Meanwhile, in perl6-language'></a><h1>Meanwhile, in perl6-language</h1>
 <a name='The Unicode argument again'></a><h2>The Unicode argument again</h2>
-<p>Andy Wardley strongly advocated not making Unicode operators <code>«</code>, <code>»</code>
+<p>Andy Wardley strongly advocated not making Unicode operators <code>«</code>, <code>»</code>
 etc part of the core language. Larry disagreed, but proposed that any
 Unicode declarations should also have an <code>is ASCII('!@#$')</code> trait to
 specify the ASCII equivalent.</p>

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-02-15.html

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 Data::Dumper. Way to go Jens. People were impressed.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200402051301.35111.parrot@jensbeimsurfen.de' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Supporting simple PMCs as keys'></a><h2>Supporting simple PMCs as keys</h2>
-<p>Stéphane Payrard posted a patch to support using simple PMCs instead of
+<p>Stéphane Payrard posted a patch to support using simple PMCs instead of
 full on key PMCs for simple lookups. He and Leo discussed it, but the
 patch hasn't been accepted yet.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040209192126.GB17703@stefp.dyndns.org' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a06010204bc52aa01e263@' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a>[172.24.18.98]</p>
 <a name='Object spec'></a><h2>Object spec</h2>
 <p>Dan noted that he'd checked in some major revisions to PDD15 (objects!)
-and suggested that people take a look. Simon Glover, Leo Tötsch and LF
+and suggested that people take a look. Simon Glover, Leo Tötsch and LF
 had questions.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a0601020bbc52f88649a7@' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a>[172.24.18.98]</p>
 <a name='Meanwhile in perl6-language'></a><h1>Meanwhile in perl6-language</h1>
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040212031134.GA16797@babylonia.flatirons.org' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040213041440.28310.qmail@web40802.mail.yahoo.com' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=402EA18A.40604@rodadams.net' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a> -- Feel Rod's pain.</p>
-<a name='Haven't I had this feeling of déja vù before?'></a><h2>Haven't I had this feeling of déja vù before?</h2>
+<a name='Haven't I had this feeling of déja vù before?'></a><h2>Haven't I had this feeling of déja vù before?</h2>
 <p>Dmitry Dorofeev pointed everyone at Scharli et al's paper on Smalltalk
 Traits and proposed that Perl 6 use something similar. Which is what
 Larry proposed a few weeks back, except he called Traits Roles and

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-02-22.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 just dive straight into perl6-internals</p>
 <a name='Loading bytecode at runtime'></a><h2>Loading bytecode at runtime</h2>
 <p>Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of
-bytecode. This week, Leo Tötsch started implementing it. There was a
+bytecode. This week, Leo Tötsch started implementing it. There was a
 certain amount of quibbling about syntax, but that was quickly sorted
 out.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200402200842.i1K8g4F15344@thu8.leo.home' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 niggles. Getting ahead of myself slightly, he finished it this week.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a06010208bc581095417f@' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a>[172.24.18.98]</p>
 <a name='Obfuscated Parrot'></a><h2>Obfuscated Parrot</h2>
-<p>I reproduce this product of Leo Tötsch's warped brane without comment:</p>
+<p>I reproduce this product of Leo Tötsch's warped brane without comment:</p>
 <pre>     bounds 1
      trace 0
      split P0, '', &quot;\nrekcaH torraP rehtona tsuJ&quot;
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1077166499.24310.78.camel@localhost' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Parrot Day at the Austrian Perl Workshop'></a><h2>Parrot Day at the Austrian Perl Workshop</h2>
 <p>Thomas Klausner announced that this year's Austrian Perl Workshop would
-have a Parrot Day, with a tutorial from Leo Tötsch and hopefully some
+have a Parrot Day, with a tutorial from Leo Tötsch and hopefully some
 other good stuff from Parrot luminaries. Thomas also asked for people
 to submit talk ideas.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20040220015102.GL2974@zsi.at' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/InterpretedLanguages2004/' target='_blank'>www.sebastian-bergmann.de</a></p>
 <a name='Meanwhile, in perl6-languages'></a><h1>Meanwhile, in perl6-languages</h1>
 <a name='Traits/Roles'></a><h2>Traits/Roles</h2>
-<p>I know I've had this feeling of déjà vu before, but I've spelt it
+<p>I know I've had this feeling of déjà vu before, but I've spelt it
 right this time. Discussion of Roles continued this week. If I never
 read another discussion of the difference between <code>Dog::bark</code> and
 <code>Tree::bark</code> again, it'll be too soon.</p>

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-02-29.html

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a06010202bc5fcbfaeb19@' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a>[172.24.18.98]</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a06010205bc5fd8fef7f7@' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a>[172.24.18.98]</p>
 <a name='Feature Freeze'></a><h2>Feature Freeze</h2>
-<p>On Wednesday, Leo Tötsch announced a feature slush (patches to add OO
+<p>On Wednesday, Leo Tötsch announced a feature slush (patches to add OO
 features were still being accepted) in anticipation of a release. The
 patch rate increased as people got on with fixing up failing tests on
 various platforms, improving documentation, and improving OO

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-03-07.html

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 implementation of the m4 macro language.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rt-3.0.8-27316-80413.12.8637727827157@perl.org' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Use vim?'></a><h2>Use vim?</h2>
-<p>I don't use vim, but it seems that Leo Tötsch does. He's added some
+<p>I don't use vim, but it seems that Leo Tötsch does. He's added some
 handy dandy vim syntax files for IMC code. If you're a vim user you
 might like to check it out. Leo points out that the syntax tables might
 well be handy if you don't know all 1384 opcode variants by heart.</p>

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-03-14.html

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 <p>Dan has come to the view that we need an alternative, light weight,
 calling convention for calling vtable opcode functions; the idea being
 that this should speed up objects a tad. He asked for suggestions.</p>
-<p>Leo Tötsch wasn't convinced that we really need special calling
+<p>Leo Tötsch wasn't convinced that we really need special calling
 conventions, arguing (with numbers) that it would be best to
 concentrate on speeding up object instantiation by optimizing object
 layout. Simon Glover agreed with him, noting that simply changing the
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 <a name='Summary Correction'></a><h2>Summary Correction</h2>
 <p>Last week I said that we can't yet do delegated method calls for vtable
 functions with objects. Leo pointed out that, actually, we can now. Leo
-also disclaimed any responsibility for helping Brent Royal-Gordon (né
+also disclaimed any responsibility for helping Brent Royal-Gordon (né
 Dax?) fix up the support functions for Parrot::Config, though Brent
 later claimed that he was merely the person doing the typing...</p>
 <p>Jerome Quelin noted that <b><i>parrotbug</i></b> has already reached version 0.2.1
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 in, you can find it at <code>library/objecthacks.imc</code></p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200403091934.50795.parrot@jensbeimsurfen.de' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Implementing stat?'></a><h2>Implementing <code>stat</code>?</h2>
-<p>Leo Tötsch proposed a <code>stat</code> opcode for finding out about things in the
+<p>Leo Tötsch proposed a <code>stat</code> opcode for finding out about things in the
 filesystem. He outlined a proposed interface. Dan agreed that we'd need
 something, but that Leo's proposal was far too unix-centric to work for
 a cross platform platform like Parrot. He suggested going back to first
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
 to have a 'call class method' operation. Paolo Molaro pointed out that
 most of this stuff only becomes a real issue when you have to deal with
 objects implemented in one language calling methods on objects
-implemented in a different one. Leo Tötsch explained Parrot's current
+implemented in a different one. Leo Tötsch explained Parrot's current
 (somewhat confusing to these eyes) hierarchy where:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a name='A ParrotClass isa delegate PMC'></a>A ParrotClass isa delegate PMC</li>

source/archive/list-summaries/2004/p6summary.2004-03-21.html

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200403151648.i2FGm5A04234@vendian.org' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='GC issues'></a><h2>GC issues</h2>
 <p>Jens Rieks continues to stress the object stuff (he's working on writing
-an EBNF parser). He posted a test to the list that led Leo Tötsch to
+an EBNF parser). He posted a test to the list that led Leo Tötsch to
 find and fix 3 bugs in the Garbage Collector's DOD phase.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200403151937.19883.parrot@jensbeimsurfen.de' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Will's questions'></a><h2>Will's questions</h2>
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=FB17458A-783C-11D8-8121-000393A6B9DA@mac.com' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>
 <a name='Continuation usage'></a><h2>Continuation usage</h2>
 <p>Jens Rieks and Piers Cawley both had problems with continuations. Leo
-Tötsch tried explain what they were doing wrong. There seemed to be a
+Tötsch tried explain what they were doing wrong. There seemed to be a
 fair amount of talking past each other going on (at least, that's how
 it felt from my point of view) but I think communication has been
 established now. Hopefully this will lead to a better set of tests for
@@ -150,14 +150,14 @@
 <a name='Meanwhile, in perl6-language'></a><h1>Meanwhile, in perl6-language</h1>
 <a name='Hash subscriptor'></a><h2>Hash subscriptor</h2>
 <p>At the back end of the previous week, Larry introduced the idea of
-subscripting hashes with <code>%hash«baz»</code> when you mean
+subscripting hashes with <code>%hash«baz»</code> when you mean
 <code>%hash{'baz'}</code>. This surprised John Williams (and others I'm sure, it
 certainly surprised me, but it's one of those &quot;What? Oh... that makes a
 lot of sense&quot; type surprises.) Larry explained his thinking on the
 issue. Apparently it arose because <code>:foo('bar')</code> was too ugly to live,
-but too useful to die, so <code>:foo«bar»</code> was invented, and once you have
-that, it is but a short step to <code>%foo«bar»</code>. (If you've not read
-Exegesis 7, you probably don't know that <code>:foo«bar»</code> is equivalent to
+but too useful to die, so <code>:foo«bar»</code> was invented, and once you have
+that, it is but a short step to <code>%foo«bar»</code>. (If you've not read
+Exegesis 7, you probably don't know that <code>:foo«bar»</code> is equivalent to
 <code>foo =&gt; 'bar'</code>, but you do now.) John wasn't convinced though. It
 remains to be seen if he's convinced Larry.</p>
 <p>Larry: unfortunately it's an unavoidable part of my job description to
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
 'broken bar' glyph as an infix form of the <code>zip</code> operator. Which I
 didn't quite realise as I skimmed the thread during the week because
 courier doesn't seem to distinguish between the broken bar and the
-standard bar. Larry later suggested using the yen (¥) symbol instead,
+standard bar. Larry later suggested using the yen (¥) symbol instead,
 which has the advantage of looking a little like a zipper. I really
 hope that firms up from suggestion to design call.</p>
 <p><a href='http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200403200148.i2K1mJkG001378@ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com' target='_blank'>groups.google.com</a></p>