UTF-8 and !# shell scripts
Is there a way to configure bash on Linux (red hat and ubuntu) to allow shell scripts to be encoded in UTF-8?
I can't find a simple way to change just one little thing and have the whole system just use UTF-8 files without having to worry about encoding.
I'm fairly sure bash pays attention to your locale setting, so if it's UTF-8, you should be good to go.
As long as you don't use the UTF-8 BOM, you should be ok.
You shouldn't have to do anything, it's always worked automatically for me.