Re: [rt.cpan.org #126280] 90-rt122949.t fails when "Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" is enabled

[email protected] ("[email protected] via RT") Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:05:32 -0400

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     Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #126280] 90-rt122949.t fails when "Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" is enabled
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126280 >


On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:48:59 -0400
"Roderich Schupp via RT" <[email protected]> wrote:

> You're right, I once again got fooled by the idiotic Unicode handling in Perl.

Yeah, I hate it too.

> Can you add
> 
> use Encode qw( encode );
> 
> near the top of 90-rt122949.t and replace the "...\x{85}..." test case with
> 
>   [ encode("UTF-8", qq[qq[a\x{85}b]) ],
>   [ encode("UTF-8", qq[qq[smiley \x{263A}]) ],  
>   [ encode("UTF-8", qq[german umlaute \x{E4}\x{F6}\x{FC}]) ],
>   [ encode("UTF-8", qq[chinese zhongwen \x{4E2D}\x{6587}]) ],
> 
> and rerun the failing test both with and without "Use Unicode..."?

You made a small typo (doubled 'qq['), but after fixing it, it passes
both with checkbox enabled and disabled.

> 
> Cheers, Roderich