Re: Weird behavior of encoding & open pragmas

[email protected] (Nick Ing-Simmons) Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:39:43 +0100

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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[email protected]> writes:
>$ perl -e 'use encoding "ISO-8859-2"; use open ":encoding(ISO-8859-2)"; print
>ord($ARGV[0]), chr(260), $ARGV[0], "\n"' Ą "\x{00a1}" does not map to iso-8859-
>2 at -e line 1. 260Ą\x{00a1}
>
>I don't understand it: ord($ARGV[0]) is 260, chr(260) can be printed, yet
>$ARGV[0] cannot be printed?
>
>Which part of Perl performs the recoding of @ARGV here?

I thing this is another double encoding issue - needs more thought...