[perl #61394] Re: unicode and macosx

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my $s = " "; say  $s.chars  #  now returns 1

Note : the bug was reported on macintel 32 bits which died. I am now
testing on a macintel 64 bits.
I don't know if it can affect the test.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Stéphane Payrard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On a macintel 10.5 I have some problem with unicode. unicode
> characters are not recognized as such. See the rakudo test below
>
> The configuring phase gives :
>
> Determining whether ICU is installed...................................yes.
>
> The compiling phase finish with an error but it apprently causes no
> problems except I can't run 'make test' because of
> the dependance on a successful compilation.
>
> ar: blib/lib/libparrot.a is a fat file (use libtool(1) or lipo(1) and
> ar(1) on it)
> ar: blib/lib/libparrot.a: Inappropriate file type or format
> make: *** [blib/lib/libparrot.a] Error 1
>
> rakudo is generated without problem
>
> But the following test fails. I pasted the content of the literal
> string with a character that emacs says to be #x8a0
>
>
>> my $s = " "; say  $s.chars  # $s == "\x8a0"
> 2
>
>
> I expected one.
>
> --
> cognominal stef
>



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