Re: Interpretation of non-UTF8 strings
[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
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Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>>$ perl -e 'use open ":locale"; use encoding(latin2); print chr(260), "\n"'
>>Ä
>>$ perl -e 'use encoding(latin2); use open ":locale"; print chr(260), "\n"'
>>"\x{12a9}" does not map to iso-8859-2 at -e line 1.
>>panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at -e line 1.
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> Which Perl? With 5.8.5 I get Ä.
Ooops. Perl 5.8.5 with my below-mentioned patch.
> With the patch I just sent to [email protected] for Perl 5.8.5,
> these all seem to work as you expect. The failure in the second one was
> not the case of forgetting utf8, it was in fact one too many utf8s...
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